Stonehenge's secret: archaeologist uncovers evidence of encircling hedges

Guardian ^ | Thursday, February 4, 2010 | Maev Kennedy

[SunkenCiv]

subtitle: "Survey of landscape suggests prehistoric monument was surrounded by two circular hedges"

[SunkenCiv]

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[rodguy911]

Somebody was really busy with a forklift thousands of years ago....

[PLMerite]

“Hedgehenge” ?

[Beowulf9]

Anyone able to post a photo of these 18th century watercolors?

[JoeProBono]

[martin_fierro]

"They werrrrre a SHHRRRUBBBERRRRY!"

[decimon]

Hence the puzzling inscription, “Stay out da bushes!”

[Domestic Church]

So 2000 years ago somebody gussied it up for the tourist trade.

[Raycpa]

Perhaps the outer circles were the bathrooms and the inner circles where the beer was served.

[Sawdring]

world's most famous prehistoric monument

Egyptian Pyramids.

[John-Irish]

LOL! Ya beat me to it! hey, are you THE Martin Fierro, the saxaphone player? Didn’t you play with Jerry Garcia years ago?

[knews_hound]

You gave my son and I a belly laugh with that one.

Cheers,

knewshound

[Lost Dutchman]

“world's most famous prehistoric monument..
Egyptian Pyramids.”

Not to quibble, but the Great Pyramid complex was built in the historic period.

[Oztrich Boy]

world's most famous prehistoric monument

Egyptian Pyramids.

Once the people doing it are writing down what they were doing it's no longer prehistory.

[martin_fierro]

hey, are you THE Martin Fierro, the saxaphone player? Didn’t you play with Jerry Garcia years ago?

That would be "No."

[Sawdring]

Good point!

[John O]

I knew that FR wouldn’t let me down.

Of course the inner hedge was taller than the outer giving a nice two level effect.

[SunkenCiv]

The Egyptian pyramids weren't built in prehistoric times; the exterior used to be covered with smooth facing stones which were carved with hieroglyphs, and endured until Greek accounts recorded that, at least. Hemiunu, the architect of the Great Pyramid, was interred near it, and his name is on or in the tomb.

[SunkenCiv]

It could be the monument was such an eyesore, that the locals just planted a hedge around it so they wouldn’t have to look at it anymore. :’)