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  • Vast cemetery of Bronze Age burial mounds unearthed near Stonehenge

    06/18/2023 6:26:16 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 24 replies
    Live Science ^ | June 15, 2023 | Tom Metcalfe
    Archaeologists have discovered a vast cemetery of Bronze Age burial mounds, thought to be up to 4,400 years old, ahead of a building development less than 10 miles (16 kilometers) from Stonehenge.The cemetery includes more than 20 circular mounds, known as barrows, built between 2400 B.C. and 1500 B.C. on a chalk hillside near Harnham on the outskirts of Salisbury in southwest England.Other than the site's proximity to Stonehenge, there's no evidence that the cemetery was connected with the famous monument. But the barrows were built around the same time as some of the central stages of Stonehenge, according to...
  • FReeper Wheelbarrow(BillBarrows) has died. WW2/Bronze star recipient

    11/19/2012 8:38:45 AM PST · by DollyCali · 112 replies
    all his FRiends | 11/19/2012 | DollyCali
    With FReeper AFPhys in Grand Island NY (at home of The Mayor) showing off the Wheelbarrow skills~! Bill at the first Honor Flight out of Akron. He was delighted to chat with Bob Dole. At a Walter Reed Freep - with Bert, Kristinn. He really enjoyed the WH correspondent dinner FReep & time afterward in hotel lounge He may have been old.. but he wasn't stupid!!!! A gentle and kind man has returned to his maker. He was a patriot, FReeper, WW2 Army/AF veteran who received the Bronze Star, and very very young at heart. He buried two wifes...
  • Europe's prehistoric tombs built in bursts

    08/15/2010 10:48:30 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 10 replies
    USA Today | Wednesday, August 11, 2010 | Dan Vergano
    link only, no excerpt, no posting the graphic, no slouching, no nothing, no kidding. Europe's prehistoric tombs built in bursts