Thread: Archeologists: Incredible find at Stonehenge

Very interesting. To me, at least. BBC doco coming out in 2 weeks on this.

Archaeologists Have Made An Incredible Discovery At Stonehenge

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Stonehenge. Just a week after finding out that Stonehenge was once a complete circle, archaeologists from Birmingham and Bradford universities, and from the Ludwig Boltzman Institute in Vienna, have shattered the image of Stonehenge as a desolate and lonely place.


Archaeologists Confirm That Stonehenge Was Once A Complete Circle

Though archaeologists have long suspected that the huge neolithic stones of Stonehenge once formed…
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After four years of painstaking effort, and by using a magnetometer, a ground-penetrating radar (GPR), and a 3D laser scanner, archaeologists have shown that Stonehenge was once a sprawling complex that extended for miles.

And then there's the previously unknown "super henge," a monument located just two miles from Stonehenge. Scans suggest that each buried stone is about three meters (10 feet) long and 1.5 meters (5 feet) wide. The stones are positioned horizontally, not vertically, but it's conceivable that they originally stood upright like other standing stones. The archaeologists suspect they were brought to the site shortly before 2,500 BC.

The Independent reports:

The c-shaped enclosure – more than 330 metres wide and over 400 metres long – faced directly towards the River Avon. The monument was later converted from a c-shaped to a roughly circular enclosure, now known as Durrington Walls – Britain's largest pre-historic henge, roughly 12 times the size of Stonehenge itself.


As a religious complex, it would almost certainly have had a deeply spiritual and ritual connection with the river. But precisely why is a complete mystery, although it is possible that that particular stretch of water was regarded as a deity.

As for the other henge-like Neolithic and Bronze Age religious shrines, they range between 10 and 30 meters ( 32 to 100 feet) in diameter. Scans also revealed around 20 large ritual pits, each up to five meters (16 feet) in diameter. More than a half dozen Bronze Age burial mounds were discovered, along with four Iron Age shrines or tombs, and a half dozen Bronze Age and Iron Age domestic or livestock enclosures.

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Under one of the mounds, the investigators identified a 33 meter (108 feet)-long timber building dated at about 6,000 years old. It was likely used for ritual burials and related practices.

"[The building] has three rows of roof-bearing posts. It is around 300 square metres and slightly trapezoidal, which is interesting because in the same period on the continent, about 100 to 200 years earlier, we also find this type of trapezoidal building related to megaliths [giant stones]," noted Wolfgang Neubauer of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute in a BBC article.

The monuments and structures were not all built at the same time, so the entire complex was not conceived or planned as a whole. Further analysis will reveal exactly how the site evolved through the ages.

A two-part BBC Two documentary titled "Operation Stonehenge: What Lies Beneath" will be shown this coming Thursday evening and next Thursday. Many more details of the investigation's new discoveries are expected to be revealed.

Sources: The Independent | BBC

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Archaeologists Have Made An Incredible Discovery At Stonehenge

Originally Posted by Black Heart

Very interesting. To me, at least. BBC doco coming out in 2 weeks on this.

Archaeologists Have Made An Incredible Discovery At Stonehenge

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Stonehenge. Just a week after finding out that Stonehenge was once a complete circle, archaeologists from Birmingham and Bradford universities, and from the Ludwig Boltzman Institute in Vienna, have shattered the image of Stonehenge as a desolate and lonely place.

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This is hardly news...Google "Newgrange Co. Kildare". Our henge here in Ireland is still intact and is a functioning celestial calendar. If you happen to be a foreign President you can get into the chamber at 8am on the longest day of the year, when the sun hits the spot.

Thankfully, the lager louts never got their hands on it...

^ Paddy,

thanks for info, I didn't know.

And Chass,

No comment on that response.

Hmm.....

The photo, second from the top on the top right.....

Newgrange is in Co. Meath.

Very interesting, but:

Published on 11 Sep 2014

Watched part 1. Will watch the rest later.

Well, I'm sorry I posted this OP.

I find it interesting.

I'm sorry that you don't.

I for one find it fascinating. I wish they had a clue as to the spiritual meaning/function. I also wish I could see the documentary and will keep an eye out for it over here.

I had to study Stone henge not long ago for my lads homework, there was lots of stuff I'd forgotten and it was really special relearning it with him, he loved it

Originally Posted by Black Heart

Well, I'm sorry I posted this OP.

I find it interesting.

I'm sorry that you don't.

Not sure who you are replying to, but I did find it interesting and watched part 1 to the end. Haven't had time to watch part 2 yet.

So, more like this please!

Originally Posted by MrG

I for one find it fascinating. I wish they had a clue as to the spiritual meaning/function. I also wish I could see the documentary and will keep an eye out for it over here.

Both parts are on Youtube:

The Shetland islands have a much more interesting site.

Originally Posted by JetsetBkk

Both parts are on Youtube:

Thanks for the link, but informed that CBS has blocked the content in my country because of copyright conflict.
Will keep trying.

Maybe they were made by aliens?


(Mars rover tracks "accidentally" draw a penis on Mars)

1,300 stone circles? Crikey.

Originally Posted by MrG

Thanks for the link, but informed that CBS has blocked the content in my country because of copyright conflict.
Will keep trying.

A VPN will fix it that easily.

MrG has had 7 years to figure it out.