Could Mid Wales have been home to a ‘neolithic theme park’ used for rituals and feasts?

Mid Wales could have been home to a “Neolithic theme park” used for gatherings, religious rituals and feasts, archaeologists suggest.

A dig at the Walton Basin in Radnorshire is lending weight to the theory that there may have been a Neolithic tribal centre based in the area.

The site has been dated back to between 3800 and 2300BC and shows remains of palisades, cursuses (lengths of bank) and enclosures that all bear some resemblance to monuments found at Stonehenge.

The Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust has been carrying out intermittent excavations on the site for close to 40 years. dig at a site in Mid Wales is lending weight to the theory that there may have been a Neolithic tribal centre based in the area. [...] walesonline.co.uk/ via Past Horizons

Actualización 15-04-13. Estructuras circulares neolíticas en Gales (Reino Unido) podrían ser centros de rituales religiosos
Mid Wales podría haber sido el lugar de un "parque temático del neolítico" que se utilizaba para reuniones, rituales religiosos y fiestas, sugieren los arqueólogos.

Una excavación en la cuenca Walton, en Radnorshire, está prestando peso a la teoría de que pudo haber sido un centro neolítico tribal con sede en la zona.

El enclave ha sido datado entre 3.800 y 2.300 a.C. y muestra restos de empalizadas, cursus (bancos de tierra longitudinales) y recintos, que tienen cierta semejanza con los monumentos que se encuentran en Stonehenge...