It was a sign.
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...
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Do you have the documents? (I’d say those relatives are pretty distant.)
They painted their faces blue for the occasion, dad said...
It was a sign.
Historians are not sure what purpose the Curcus served and Professor Gaffney as a ‘bloody great barrier to the north of Stonehenge.’
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What in the heck does this sentence mean? Ah, contemporary journalism....
I still say, as I have for years, that Stonehenge was a tavern.
I have never seen, or at least noticed, an anthropomorphic sarsen stone before; right most is a seated human figure. This is the photo from the article itself. Any ideas or history on this?
There’s a ship with sails carved on one of the stones, along with other shapes (a knife or sword I think, etc), and it’s likely that the stones were plastered and painted, but all that vanished in millennia of rain.
It’s important to keep in mind that the monument was found by a new group each time Britain was colonized by someone new (and that has happened a lot), and reused. Also, during classic pre-Roman times there was seagoing trade all over the place, and tourists, and ya can count on those bastards to leave graffiti everywhere.
The whereabouts of the missing stones will be difficult to figure out. During the early 20th century, at another British megalithic site, conservation work was being done. One of the largest stones had tipped at some point and the conservators winched it back upright. As a consequence they found the well-preserved remains of a 16th century rich guy (he still had a coin purse which made the dating a snap), apparently he was having the stone hauled away for some project.
Thanks; didn’t know about the ship carving, either.
Speaking of sculpted stones, going to Crazy Horse tonight for the annual September night blast celebrating Korczak’s birthday.
Spooky? I felt quite at home there. It seemed peaceful to me.
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