Interesting suggestion that some pits recently excavated in Britain and found to date from the Mesolithic period could present a prototype for later Neolithic monuments and their alignments:
phys.org
Extensive Mesolithic discovery in Bedfordshire shows the importance of pits for understanding early Britain
In Britain, the Mesolithic period (10BC to 4000BC) was the last time people lived exclusively as hunter-fisher-gatherers. The recent discovery and excavation of a series of large Mesolithic pits at Linmere, Bedfordshire, is important for rethinking how historians have previously considered life...
