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Why was Stonehenge built? 'Groundbreaking' discovery of 15 new monuments suggests the answer...
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| 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.
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posted on
08/26/2014 11:39:36 AM PDT
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
(Illegals Are Getting Flat Screet TV's....NOT TB Screenings!)
To: BenLurkin
It was built to hook tourists.
To: outofsalt
“It was built to hook tourists.”
One of the most disappointing places I’ve ever visited.
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posted on
08/26/2014 12:03:31 PM PDT
by
Mears
To: Mears
One of the most disappointing places I’ve ever visited. Some day an archeologist will dig this up...
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!
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posted on
08/26/2014 12:15:38 PM PDT
by
gr8eman
(Bill Carson...meet Arch Stanton!)
To: BenLurkin
A stargate tipped over due to lack of structural support...
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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)
To: Opinionated Blowhard
It was the ancients’ version of a “Big Boy”.
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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)
To: outofsalt
I love kitsch and that certainly qualifies.
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posted on
08/26/2014 12:19:56 PM PDT
by
Mears
To: BenLurkin
“To Serve Man” was a cook book!
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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.)
To: MrB
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".
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posted on
08/26/2014 12:29:42 PM PDT
by
Charles Martel
(Endeavor to persevere...)
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.
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posted on
08/26/2014 12:32:01 PM PDT
by
askrenr
(HOOAH! It's an Army thing.)
To: jaydubya2
Now who in their right mind would make or buy that?
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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)
To: caligatrux
I was just trying to throw in a little humor.
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.
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posted on
08/26/2014 1:02:35 PM PDT
by
Scoutmaster
(I'd rather be at Philmont)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
08/26/2014 1:03:36 PM PDT
by
databoss
To: BenLurkin
It was built as a joke to make someone a thousand years later scratch his head in bewilderment.
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posted on
08/26/2014 1:05:06 PM PDT
by
bgill
To: DannyTN
Great flick!
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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.)
To: MrB; jaydubya2
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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.)
To: BenLurkin; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...
Thanks BenLurkin.
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posted on
08/28/2014 3:26:23 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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