12 April 2021 CE
Images
Stone 53 – The Dagger Stone – July 1953 with Custodian
Image credit: Wiltshire Record Office
Stone 53 showing multiple Daggers – 5pm 19th July 1953 as recorded by Professor Atkinson
Image credit: Professor Atkinson
Difficult not to do image duplication but the carvings can be seen more readily in some lights than others,
Image credit: Jimit Dec 05
Inner face of Stone 53 (Trilithon Two), showing graffiti. Bronze Age carving of a dagger (left) and an axe-head (right) in lower half.
Taken April 2000.
Image credit: Cursuswalker (During access by permission of English Heritage)
I’ve bumped up the contrast on the photo to make the dagger (centre, just above rock in foreground) a little more visible.
The graffitti above says -
‘ION: LUD: DETERRE‘
Victorian chippings at the top, mysterious dagger shapes at the bottom
Articles
Stonehenge Laser Scan -
Archaeological Analysis Report.
The Stonehenge Lasershow – more on the stonehenge carvings.
A site about the findings of a joint project run by Archaeoptics and Wessex Archaeology who scanned some of the Stonehenge sarcens with lasers to record the known rock art. In the process of the survey they found some new carvings.
