Posted on 08/26/2014 10:21:53 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Archaeologist Vince Gaffney, of the University of Birmingham, is involved in the Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project – a four-year collaboration with the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Archaeological Prospection and Virtual Archaeology in Austria.
The team has conducted the first detailed underground survey of the area surrounding Stonehenge, covering around four square miles (6km), journalist Ed Caesar reported for Smithsonian.
They discovered evidence of 15 unknown and poorly-understood late Neolithic monuments, including other henges, barrows, pits and ditches, which could all harbour valuable information about the prehistoric site.
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Historians are not sure what purpose the Curcus served and Professor Gaffney as a ‘bloody great barrier to the north of Stonehenge.’
Some experts think it was linked to the passage of the sun and this was supported by new clues.
The team discovered gaps in the ditch including a large break in the northern side to allow people to enter and exit the Curcus.
Professor Gaffney thinks the gaps served as ‘channels though the landscape’ to enable people to move north and south.
He also found a huge pit at the eastern end of the Curcus, which is today 3ft (1metre) underground...
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Sounds to me like some kind of cattle pen, but what do I know.
I thought the atmosphere around Stonehenge was a bit spooky………..
Distant relatives on my dad’s side of the family built Stonehenge...
(at least, that’s the family legend)
My English uncle laughed at me for wanting to see Stonehenge. I guess it’s similar to the way we in MA feel about Plymouth Rock. But at least Plymouth Rock has no admission fee.
I visited Stonehenge 50 years ago and there was no admission fee. There was no fence around it, no guards, it just stood in an open field, we 3 were the only people there. When I thought about how long ago it had been built it made me kind of emotional.
“It’s a cook book!”
Not many neopagan kooks mooning about either. ;)
It was meant to function as a signal.
Well, that should pretty much solve the mystery.
Worked for Lizzie Warren!
I’m still believing Merlin brought it!
It might help these people's credibility if they knew how to use spell checker. (Circus)
He also found a huge pit at the eastern end of the Curcus, which is today 3ft (1metre) underground...
As opposed to being 3ft above ground?
Sorry, it’s just confusing.
I absolutely love to hear about these new findings at Stonehenge.
My Grandfather from Scotland introduced me too Stonehenge and curried my interest in the monument long ago when I was a wee girl. I only wish he were alive today to read these findings.
We are privileged to have these insights. At the time he was alive they knew so little about it. He would find this all so fascinating.
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