Mystery Hill: America's Stonehenge?

The Museum of Unnatural Mystery ^ | 1997 | Lee Krystek

[SunkenCiv]

How old is the site? Pottery fragments have been tested and found to go back as far as 1000 BC. Charcoal from one fire pit, measured by radiocarbon dating, was found to be 4000 years old.

[SunkenCiv]

There are still those who cling to the outmoded notion that Mystery Hill (which is very much larger than its core structure) was built by an early colonial period settler, or worse yet, was constructed as a "root cellar". If the proved early date of the structure were widely accepted, perhaps the skinheads wouldn't have placed their taint on the findings.

America's Stonehenge
by Donna M. Dube
1997

The first radiocarbon test on the site took place in 1967. A tree stump was found with its roots growing around and through a stone structure. The date was 1690 + 45 years. Here was proof that at least some of the structures existed before the Pattee occupation... In 1969 more excavations revealed stone tools and charcoal which carbon-dated to approximately 3000 years BP.

Louis Winkler
Penn State

Dr. Winkler’s current research is focused on the megalithic complex in New Hampshire known as Mystery Hill and America’s Stonehenge. He is the principal site scientist, having shown, with laser theodolite and radiocarbon datings that the site has a Bronze Age Origin (2000 BC – 1500 BC), which may be the center of an ancient European civilization.

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I guess it's megalith week. :')

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[Khurkris]

"Funny how, when serious research is done, everything turns out to be a few thousand years old, hummm? Wonder why?"

...hmmm...academic peer review accountability?...fear of being the 1st to publish?...following the herd?

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[RightWhale]

The place is in ruins. There are just a few identifiable features and it might be that those are rebuilds. The biggest recognizeable piece is a flat stone with a blood groove running around it. That feature might indicate a blood sacrifice practice similar to what was commonly done in Europe and the Levant before Abraham. Thus we think the site was European.

[SunkenCiv]

The site is also very large. There's a sort of European-maze look to the knoll on which the stones were laid, culminating in the small barrow-type structure at the summit.

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