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jimit J
jimit Dec 18, 2009 12:38:27
Replying to suave harv

I went on the off chance on Thur 16th and got access into the stones at sunset see http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/81786/fieldnotes/stonehenge.html
and http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/latest/0/3/

I hope the Artistic ones are acceptable, I wanted to keep that mysterious feeling.

While I was chatting to the various archaeos there I heard a strange whisper.....When they were examining the site of the new VC at Airmans Corner geofiz and a trial trench came across a mini woodhenge on the site of the carpark! Anyone know more about this?
Jim.

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VBB Dec 18, 2009 15:14:34
Replying to jimit

jimit wrote:
I went on the off chance on Thur 16th and got access into the stones at sunset see http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/81786/fieldnotes/stonehenge.html
and http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/latest/0/3/

I hope the Artistic ones are acceptable, I wanted to keep that mysterious feeling.

While I was chatting to the various archaeos there I heard a strange whisper.....When they were examining the site of the new VC at Airmans Corner geofiz and a trial trench came across a mini woodhenge on the site of the carpark! Anyone know more about this?
Jim.

Glad to hear you got in Jim.

B Branwen
Branwen Dec 24, 2009 14:37:24
Replying to jimit

http://remotecentral.blogspot.com/2008/04/stonehenge-smithsonian-channel.html wrote:
In the most recent update, (video clip again included) Wessex archaeologist Phil Harding says he would be immensely cheered by finding mesolithic flint tools, and if such are found, they would merit a blog post here - he makes the point that there are traces of Mesolithic people five millennia before Stonehenge came into being - the most well known of which are the pits, or giant post-holes, that were found in 1964 during the construction of the car park, and date back some 10,500 years, which I think is the earliest known sign of human activity at the site.
This car park?

Loved the mysterious shot of stonehenge with the clouds and sun BTW. The alignments link you give wont open for me though, perhaps because I have a slow wireless connection. 'Tis the sigh.