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Posted by Zeb 30th August 2021ce |
Stonehenge Graffiti / Dagger Stone (Standing Stone / Menhir) — Images |
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Posted by Zeb 30th August 2021ce |
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Posted by postman22nd June 2021ce |
Stonehenge (Circle henge) — News |
Stonehenge: Did the stone circle originally stand in Wales?One of Britain's biggest and oldest stone circles has been found in Wales - and could be the original building blocks of Stonehenge. Archaeologists uncovered the remains of the Waun Mawn site in Pembrokeshire's Preseli Hills. They believe the stones could have been dismantled and rebuilt 150 miles (240 km) away on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire. The discovery was made during filming for BBC Two's Stonehenge: The Lost Circle Revealed. The Welsh circle, believed to be the third biggest in Britain, has a diameter of 360ft (110m), the same as the ditch that encloses Stonehenge, and both are aligned on the midsummer solstice sunrise. And one of the bluestones at Stonehenge has an unusual cross-section which matches one of the holes left at Waun Mawn, suggesting the monolith began its life as part of the stone circle in the Preseli Hills before being moved. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-56029203 And was Kammer the first to recognise this? https://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/3992/waun_mawn_row_circle.html |
Posted by moss12th February 2021ce |
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Posted by Howburn Digger9th September 2020ce |
Stonehenge (Circle henge) — News |
Source of sarsen stones pinpointedDavid Nash and his team of researchers believe the sarsens come from West Woods, south west of Marlborough, and 25km from the circle. They've geochemically matched the site using a chip from Stonehenge that was taken during a restoration project in the 1950s. Two of the fifty remaining stones at Stonehenge don't match the West Woods site though... Article on today's Guardian website. The research paper can be read here in Science Advances. |
Posted by Rhiannon29th July 2020ce |
Missing part of Stonehenge returned 60 years onA metre-long core from inside the prehistoric stone was removed during archaeological excavations in 1958. No one knew where it was until Robert Phillips, 89, who was involved in those works, decided to return it. English Heritage, which looks after Stonehenge, hopes the sample might now help establish where the stones originally came from. In 1958 archaeologists raised an entire fallen trilithon - a set of three large stones, consisting of two that would have stood upright with the third placed horizontally across the top. During the works, cracks were found in one of the vertical stones and in order to reinforce it, cores were drilled through the stone and metal rods inserted. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-48190588 |
Posted by moss 8th May 2019ce |
Stonehenge: DNA reveals origin of buildersThe ancestors of the people who built Stonehenge travelled west across the Mediterranean before reaching Britain, a study has shown. Researchers in London compared DNA extracted from Neolithic human remains found in Britain with that of people alive at the same time in Europe. The Neolithic inhabitants appear to have travelled from Anatolia (modern Turkey) to Iberia before winding their way north. They reached Britain in about 4,000BC. Details have been published in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution. The migration to Britain was just one part of a general, massive expansion of people out of Anatolia in 6,000BC that introduced farming to Europe. Before that, Europe was populated by small, travelling groups which hunted animals and gathered wild plants and shellfish. One group of early farmers followed the river Danube up into Central Europe, but another group travelled west across the Mediterranean. DNA reveals that Neolithic Britons were largely descended from groups who took the Mediterranean route, either hugging the coast or hopping from island-to-island on boats. More: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47938188?fbclid=IwAR1Q99kEGMVgXbR2B3qDJcl02Hoocwi5z7uSXw1_OSpeb1ZYpqGrUB98aKc |
Posted by ryaner16th April 2019ce |
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Posted by Howburn Digger 27th January 2019ce |
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