A newly discovered Stonehenge site could rewrite British history - as long as it doesn't get destroyed first.
A team of archaeologists were working on a site called Blick Mead, near Stonehenge, a prehistoric monument located in Wiltshire, England, when they found an untouched 6,000-year-old encampment. The archaeologists told BBC the "scientifically tested charcoal" dug up from the site had "revealed that it dated from around 4000 BC."
The site's location could be destroyed by the U.K. government who was previously planning to expand roads and build a tunnel going through the dig site to Stonehenge, a popular destination for tourists, reported Telegraph. Archaeologists are now asking David Cameron, the Prime Minister, to reconsider the plan.
"British pre-history may have to be rewritten. This is the latest dated Mesolithic encampment ever found in the UK," David Jacques, one of the archaeologists who made the discovery, told BBC. "Blick Mead site connects the early hunter gatherer groups returning to Britain after the Ice Age to the Stonehenge area, all the way through to the Neolithic in the late 5th Millennium BC. But our only chance to find out about the earliest chapter of Britain's history could be wrecked if the tunnel goes ahead."
Experts believe that the archaeologists' finding could prove the Stonehenge was built as a monument to the ancestors of Neolithic Britons, reported Telegraph.
Prior to this discovery another dig at the site revealed that Amesbury was the longest continually-occupied place in the country, reported Telegraph. Britons were believed to have been drawn to the area because it once hosted a natural spring. The water, which has a constant temperature and a rare algae, produced the only color-changing stones in the country.
