Stonehenge team wins project of the year

The team which discovered the site of a second stone circle, 500 years older than the nearby Stonehenge has won a prestigious archaeology award. The sensational discovery of a 5000 year-old "Blue Stonehenge” was made by a team led by archaeologists from Manchester, Sheffield and Bristol Universities on the West bank of the River Avon last year. The Stonehenge Riverside Project - as they are known - won the Research Project of the Year award at the Current Archaeology awards held at the British Museum. The Stonehenge Riverside Project is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Royal Archaeological Institute. The award was given following an online vote by readers of Britain's biggest archaeology magazine. The new circle was 10m in diameter and was surrounded by a henge - a ditch with an external bank. However, the stones were at some point removed, leaving behind nine uncovered holes.