The king of Stonehenge: Were artefacts at ancient chief's burial site Britain's first Crown Jewels?

dailymail ^ | 12th May 2009 | Paul Harris

[JoeProBono]

He was a giant of a man, a chieftain who ruled with a royal sceptre and a warrior's axe. When they laid him to rest they dressed him in his finest regalia and placed his weapons at his side. Then they turned his face towards the setting sun and sealed him in a burial mound that would keep him safe for the next 4,000 years. In his grave were some of the most exquisitely fashioned artefacts of the Bronze Age, intricately crafted to honour the status of a figure who bore them in life in death. For this may have been the last resting place of the King of Stonehenge - and the treasures that are effectively Britain's first Crown Jewels. Now the entire hoard, recovered from the richest and most important Bronze Age grave on Salisbury Plain, is set to go on permanent display. But 21st-century Britain has thrown up a problem that never troubled ancient man. The artefacts are so rare that they have been kept in a bank vault for the past three decades because they are too precious to put on show without extensive security. So today the Wiltshire Heritage Museum at Devizes is announcing a £500,000 appeal to fund a secure gallery.

[potlatch]

Goodnight Joe. I enjoyed your many stonehenge graphics.

[potlatch]

Gads devolve, you are seeing things I’m not.
Who is Tony Stewart?
No mind, it’s late.

[potlatch]

Found it - it's so tiny it's hardly worth posting, lol.

[devolve]

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LOL!

Very neat potlatch

[JoeProBono]

[JoeProBono]

[blam]

Original discovery story posted in 2002:

Unearthed, The Prince Of Stonehenge

[devolve]

[americanophile]

"they are too precious to put on show without extensive security."

....ah....this is England, right? Is there some reason the Tower of London would be insufficient?

[JoeProBono]

[americanophile]

...that’s the place!

[ME-262]

I'd rather see Car-henge. At least we know who built it, how they built it, when they built it, and why they built it. An old pile of stones surrounded by conjecture seems like a waste of time. I'd bring the Game-boy along also, if I were with a group going to visit Stonehenge. I think after a few moments I'd pretty well have seen it.

[potlatch]

I mean no disrespect to you ME-262 and I'm thinking you may be very young and not yet thinking in terms of the history of our wonderful world. These are some of my thoughts;

Relics of ancient civilizations like Stonehenge, the giant head statues [Moai] on Easter Island, the Pyramids, etc, are wonders of the world.

There are standing stone circles all over Europe. Why were they built, how were they built, we still don't know. Those people didn't even have metal tools! How did they lift the pyramid stones?

I have seen and walked through acres of fields of pyramids deep in Tulum, Mexico and when you view these ruins you feel a solemn sense of ‘time’ and awe and think about the people who once walked there.

Carhenge, in Nebraska and Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo, Texas are curiosities to give a laugh. Like the local WalMart, we know when, why and how they were built.

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/images/tx/TXAMAcaddy1.jpg

Remember the scene of the Statue of Liberty sunk in the sand in Planet of the Apes? That would be a relic of ‘us’.

These are NOT my pictures but show many scenes from the Mayan ruins in Tulum. They are much larger and impressive than the pictures show;

http://www.tequilarista.org/images/Mex_Vacation_2003/Mex_Vacation_2003.html

[potlatch]

Ahhh, that’s very pretty devolve! You were busy!
I skipped around my pings in the wrong order and missed this one at the beginning!!

[potlatch]

You enlarged it with html, sure made a difference.
I'll have to try resizing in my Animation Shop and see how it turns out.

[JoeProBono]

LOL!

[potlatch]

Lol, I almost posted it myself. Now you have another one to add to your ‘Stonehenge’ files!

[potlatch]

NASCAR
http://www.tonystewart.com/

[razorback-bert]

I prefer the Cadillac Ranch.

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Good comments potlatch