Stonehenge in England
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Stonehenge in England
Any one who is interested in Stonehenge or is planning to visit on a trip this year might be interested in a fascinating article in the Smithsonian Magazine. A scientific project using GPS guided magnetometers (whatever that means!) has produced a 3D map of a four square mile area of Stonehenge and shows a massive underground group of buildings and possibly an ancient city. I don't know if it's readable online but the magazine is the September 2014 issue on page 30 writtten by Ed Caesar.
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Big(ish) in yesterday's Guardian too:
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2...ology-research
For some time, the powers that be have been trying to get visitors to see the central ring of stones as part of a much larger landscape, including all the barrows and possible ceremonial routes round about. If you approach on foot from a distance and view it from a distance, you do get that sense (choose the path right and it seems to appear and disappear within the landscape).
Bearing in mind the length of time it took for all that's there to be built and added to, in an entirely oral culture, it must have had different meanings and uses over time for the successive generations that did use it, never mind all of those since that have puzzled over it as a relic, and re-interpreted it in terms of their own concerns.
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2...ology-research
For some time, the powers that be have been trying to get visitors to see the central ring of stones as part of a much larger landscape, including all the barrows and possible ceremonial routes round about. If you approach on foot from a distance and view it from a distance, you do get that sense (choose the path right and it seems to appear and disappear within the landscape).
Bearing in mind the length of time it took for all that's there to be built and added to, in an entirely oral culture, it must have had different meanings and uses over time for the successive generations that did use it, never mind all of those since that have puzzled over it as a relic, and re-interpreted it in terms of their own concerns.
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There's a new 2-part programme about this on BBC2 this evening. 'Operation Stonehenge: What Lies Beneath'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04hc5t9
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04hc5t9







