Awesome find: Another henge has been discovered 900 meters from Britain's Stonehenge. And there may be more...
The discovery was made without digging anything up - this picture is a magnetometry reading of underground pits. A team led by University of Birmingham archaeologist Vince Gaffney did the field work.
The circle is dated to 2,500 to 2,200 B.C. which means it was concurrent with 'the' Stonehenge.
The discovery was made without digging anything up - this picture is a magnetometry reading of underground pits. A team led by University of Birmingham archaeologist Vince Gaffney did the field work.
The circle is dated to 2,500 to 2,200 B.C. which means it was concurrent with 'the' Stonehenge.
I saw the reports on this in the news (although not the image). How fascinating. Anthropology is the coolest. Can you imagine what it'd be like to do nothing but this stuff the rest of your life??
ReplyDeleteI can't think of anything more exciting than discovering such a thing.
I've always been interested in Stonehenge and this is equally exciting. Maybe, with the discovery of more of these, the puzzle as to their origin will be solved.
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ReplyDeleteI love the past and reading about times gone by so I can't imagine much that is better than getting paid to rediscover it...
tnlib
The amount of effort required to have built something like Stonehenge without anything like our tools (no iron!) means a large protracted effort such as only a sophisticated culture can undertake, even ignoring the astronomical precision of the thing.
Theories of lost civilisations are hard to resist.