The stones were then buried under a bank of earth that measures about 130 feet (40 m) across and nearly 10 feet (3 m) high in some places. © 1996-2015 National Geographic Society, © 2015- 2020 National Geographic Partners, LLC. The monument must be significant: It was dug in the fourth millennium B.C. He recalled an Easter Friday ritual he saw in Croatia, in which a “bloke with a cross” led fellow barefoot celebrants on a miles-long trip. We have an excessive number of solstice-aligned monuments in that landscape. We don’t know the exact route but at least we now have a starting point and an endpoint.”Fifty of the 52 massive sandstone sarsens, as they’re called, used in the monument were quarried about 15 miles away from the West Woods in Wiltshire, researchers announced Wednesday after using Geochemical testing to trace back their origins.The sarsens were erected at Stonehenge in 2500 B.C., with the tallest reaching 30 feet high and the heaviest weighing 30 tons. To Gaffney, these findings suggest a scale of activity around Stonehenge far beyond what was previously suspected. Then, as we stepped uphill, Stonehenge re-emerged on the horizon. [There are] extraordinary new features coming up, and we’re thinking well, what are they?”
Although he acknowledged the fallibility of all archaeological projection (“In the end,” he said, “we are all wrong”), his work has led him to a new interpretation of how Stonehenge was used.Parker Pearson, for his part, takes a cautious view of the new research. Based on huts, tools and animal bones he uncovered, he concluded that Durrington Walls likely housed the workers who built Stonehenge. “I have seen one of our magnetometers shear clear apart in front of me,” said Gaffney. A magnetometer has sensors that allow a geophysicist to see evidence of historic building, and even ancient ditch-digging, beneath the soil by mapping variations in the earth’s magnetic field. In the prehistoric world, there was no conception of God as he was understood by the later Abrahamic faiths. Suddenly, instead of waiting weeks or months to see what the machines had found, it was possible to cover several acres with magnetometers and radar in a day and to display that information on a screen almost instantaneously.In 2003, Parker Pearson conducted his own survey, concentrating on the nearby settlement at Durrington Walls and the area between there and the River Avon.
January/February 2015 . It was a fine English summer’s day, with thin, fast clouds above, and as we passed through fields dotted with buttercups and daisies, cows and sheep, we could have been hikers anywhere, were it not for the ghostly monument in the near distance.“Nobody had ever seen these pits before,” he continued. In the middle of a wide, grassy meadow in southern England, a ring of carefully arranged stones forms one of the most famous and most studied prehistoric monuments in the world. Neubauer’s team had also developed software to process the 40 or 50 gigabytes of raw data that these instruments could create in a day.
By KATE RAVILIOUS. Wednesday, November 8, 2017, By Roff Smith. It’s believed they were pulled on a sled-like system.“The sarsen stones make up the iconic outer circle and central trilithon horseshoe at Stonehenge. Please refresh the page and try again.The 90 or so huge stones discovered at Durrington Walls may have originally stood nearly 15 feet (4.5 meters) high before they were pushed over some 4,500 years ago, according to the researchers.
When you picture Stonehenge in your mind’s eye, you imagine the concentric rings of vast stones standing in a desolate open landscape, visible for miles around.
But the source of the sarsens has until now eluded scientists.Would you like to receive desktop browser notifications about breaking news and other major stories?“How they were moved to the site is still really the subject of speculation,” Nash went on. Gaffney and I were walking the Avenue, 300 yards or so from Stonehenge, and in the distance a string of barrows gleamed like opals. Under Stonehenge . We can only have better-informed questions.What was so interesting about the Cursus pits was that they told a story about the landscape. "Durrington Walls is also surrounded by a 58-foot-long (17.6 m) ditch that forms an enclosure around an area that is approximately equivalent to 1 mile (1.5 km) of land. What’s more, if you drew a straight line between the pit and the heelstone at Stonehenge, it ran directly along the final section of the Avenue, on the path of the sunrise on the summer solstice.One of the areas Neubauer wanted to scan was Stonehenge, and in the spring of 2009 he contacted Vince Gaffney.
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