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moss wrote:
The 'proper' version by Mike Pitts is in the latest Britarch Jan/Feb magazine, must admit Eternal Idol covered it pretty well in its discussions, I liked the bit about the parallel natural chalk ditches from the Newhenge (it has different names) that focus on the midsummer sunrise in one direction and the midwinter sunset in the other...
Although I have always been a bit curmudgeonly about Mike Parker Pearson and his theories I think he came out of the whole debacle of leaked news with a heroic and noble response.....
Moss , where can I find that bit about Newhenge /BSH ?
I remember there was simialr speculation at the Stonehenge avenue until it was pointed out that they were natural . Whatever it is at BSH is unlikely to point to both though becaue of the quite different horizon profiles ,not that it amters , but it does show their (wishful) thinking .
Just because you disagree with someone who is a good bloke doesn't make you a curmudgeon .

tiompan wrote:
Moss , where can I find that bit about Newhenge /BSH ?
I remember there was simialr speculation at the Stonehenge avenue until it was pointed out that they were natural . Whatever it is at BSH is unlikely to point to both though becaue of the quite different horizon profiles ,not that it amters , but it does show their (wishful) thinking .
Just because you disagree with someone who is a good bloke doesn't make you a curmudgeon .
Well if you have'nt got the magazine, I'll quote....

..."and the midwinter sunset in the other. In 2009, GT Frontline, a Dutch ground penetrating radar team, confirmed the presence of the two parallel ditches and mapped a third, equally spaced parallel ridge to the east. It now looked as if the builders of the first Stonehenge had added their stone circle and cremation enclosure onto the end of a remarkable natural phenomenon, where the sun's solstitial extremes were apparently marked by the contours of the land".

I suspect a lot of work still has to be done, these things take years before they are properly evaluated, but it seems if this is true than a rather important part of the jigsaw has dropped into place as to the 'why' where Stonehenge was located...