The central altar turned out to be a felled and dug up 167 year old oak stump - planted upside down, so that the roots acted as an 'altar' It was felled, and probably erected in 2050 BC. Part of the rope that was used to pull it into place was still wrapped around the buried end - it consisted of woven strands of honeysuckle vine. It was erected during that transitional time, when the Late Neolithic was being gradually exchanged for the Early Bronze Age. Incidentally, the wood was worked by early flat bronze axes rather than flint or stone axes. The inversion of a tree - apparently growing upside down is enigmatic - hints maybe of a meeting place between this world and another? Upside down pots, quernstones, etc, often feature in the excavation of prehistoric monuments
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