The Stonehenge site in Wiltshire, England.

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Researchers from Wessex Archeology recently discovered two Bronze Age burials at Stonehenge (UK), during excavations leading up to the construction of a tunnel under the archaeological site.

The tombs exhibit characteristics typical of Campaniform culture, says

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Bronze Age tombs found near megaliths at Stonehenge https://t.co/GlFPE9wOiv pic.twitter.com/zWqWh7f88c

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A strange enclosure

It first appeared in what is now the United Kingdom around 2,500 BC.

Archaeologists found around the 4,000-year-old remains a spouted container, a copper awl-like object, and a cylindrical clay object that they failed to identify.

Researchers have also unearthed several pottery dating from the Neolithic period.

Southwest of their research area, the scientists discovered a C-shaped enclosure that caught them.

The ditches surrounding it are laid out in "a strange pattern," commented Matt Leivers, archaeologist working for Wessex Archeology.

Burnt flint was in the trenches, indicating industrial activity.

The enclosure is likely to have been used for "working metal or leather, making pottery or sorting crops," said the specialist.

A controversial road project

The researchers' findings will soon be exhibited in the city museum.

They revived the debate on the 3.2 km tunnel supposed to be built below the archaeological site.

This project would make it possible to partially decongest the A303 road, which is regularly affected by traffic jams.

Its detractors fear that it will permanently prevent the discovery of hundreds of thousands of objects.

Wessex Archaelogy and the British motorway company Highways England have ensured that the exploratory phase of the project is carried out with "delicacy", but legal action has been taken.

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