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Why was Stonehenge built? 'Groundbreaking' discovery of 15 new monuments suggests the answer...
MailOnline ^ | 13:41 EST, 22 August 2014 | Sarah Griffiths

Posted on 08/26/2014 10:21:53 AM PDT by BenLurkin

Archaeologist Vince Gaffney, of the University of Birmingham, is involved in the Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project – a four-year collaboration with the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Archaeological Prospection and Virtual Archaeology in Austria.

The team has conducted the first detailed underground survey of the area surrounding Stonehenge, covering around four square miles (6km), journalist Ed Caesar reported for Smithsonian.

They discovered evidence of 15 unknown and poorly-understood late Neolithic monuments, including other henges, barrows, pits and ditches, which could all harbour valuable information about the prehistoric site.

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Historians are not sure what purpose the Curcus served and Professor Gaffney as a ‘bloody great barrier to the north of Stonehenge.’

Some experts think it was linked to the passage of the sun and this was supported by new clues.

The team discovered gaps in the ditch including a large break in the northern side to allow people to enter and exit the Curcus.

Professor Gaffney thinks the gaps served as ‘channels though the landscape’ to enable people to move north and south.

He also found a huge pit at the eastern end of the Curcus, which is today 3ft (1metre) underground...

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: archaeoastronomy; godsgravesglyphs; megaliths; stonehenge
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To: BenLurkin

Mike Parker Pearson was a friend and colleague of hubby’s when we lived in the UK and has done some extensive studying of Stonehenge. Ran across a show on History Channel the other day that featured him....but can’t remember the title.


21 posted on 08/26/2014 11:39:36 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Illegals Are Getting Flat Screet TV's....NOT TB Screenings!)
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To: BenLurkin

It was built to hook tourists.


22 posted on 08/26/2014 12:01:44 PM PDT by outofsalt
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To: outofsalt

“It was built to hook tourists.”


One of the most disappointing places I’ve ever visited.

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23 posted on 08/26/2014 12:03:31 PM PDT by Mears
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To: Mears
One of the most disappointing places I’ve ever visited.

Some day an archeologist will dig this up...

24 posted on 08/26/2014 12:15:11 PM PDT by outofsalt
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To: outofsalt

Yep...and they’re just fake inflated rubber rocks. Seriously, though, when i first saw it from a distance it was super coll...up close its just a bunch of rocks...yawn!


25 posted on 08/26/2014 12:15:38 PM PDT by gr8eman (Bill Carson...meet Arch Stanton!)
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To: BenLurkin

A stargate tipped over due to lack of structural support...


26 posted on 08/26/2014 12:16:25 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

It was the ancients’ version of a “Big Boy”.


27 posted on 08/26/2014 12:17:33 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: outofsalt

I love kitsch and that certainly qualifies.

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28 posted on 08/26/2014 12:19:56 PM PDT by Mears
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To: BenLurkin

“To Serve Man” was a cook book!


29 posted on 08/26/2014 12:24:35 PM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: MrB

30 posted on 08/26/2014 12:26:43 PM PDT by jaydubya2
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To: outofsalt
Some day an archeologist will dig this up...

Yep, and they'll write scholarly articles about it. Then they'll drive themselves crazy seeking a mythical "Rock City".

31 posted on 08/26/2014 12:29:42 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: Ditter
"I visited Stonehenge 50 years ago and there was no admission fee. There was no fence around it, no guards, it just stood in an open field."

I visited in 1973, same thing, it was somewhat spooky.
32 posted on 08/26/2014 12:32:01 PM PDT by askrenr (HOOAH! It's an Army thing.)
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To: jaydubya2

Now who in their right mind would make or buy that?


33 posted on 08/26/2014 12:35:03 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: caligatrux

I was just trying to throw in a little humor.


34 posted on 08/26/2014 12:57:07 PM PDT by sasportas
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To: outofsalt
Some of the largest drug busts in the country have occurred within 25 miles of that sign.

Cars changing drivers halfway on the Miami/NYC run.

35 posted on 08/26/2014 1:02:35 PM PDT by Scoutmaster (I'd rather be at Philmont)
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To: BenLurkin

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/9209

Foamhenge is must see if you are driving I-81...


36 posted on 08/26/2014 1:03:36 PM PDT by databoss
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To: BenLurkin

It was built as a joke to make someone a thousand years later scratch his head in bewilderment.


37 posted on 08/26/2014 1:05:06 PM PDT by bgill
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To: DannyTN
Great flick!
38 posted on 08/26/2014 2:58:33 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: MrB; jaydubya2

http://www.johnspeedie.com/healy/brilliant.wav


39 posted on 08/26/2014 3:01:56 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: BenLurkin; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...
Thanks BenLurkin.


40 posted on 08/28/2014 3:26:23 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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