On a low stretch of countryside not far from Stonehenge, where the road from Bulford cuts across open grassland, archaeologists have been piecing together something that never quite forms a full picture. Scattered postholes, fragments of pottery, bits of bone and charcoal that seem ordinary until they are placed in relation to each other. The suggestion now is that this quiet patch of Wiltshire may once have held a wooden structure aligned with the midsummer sunrise, built centuries before the first stones of Stonehenge were raised. It is a tentative idea, drawn from angles and soil stains, but it suggests the landscape was being marked long before stone entered the story.
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