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Vast neolithic circle of deep shafts found near Stonehenge

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Vast neolithic circle of deep shafts found near Stonehenge | Science | The Guardian

Exclusive: prehistoric structure spanning 1.2 miles in diameter is masterpiece of engineering, say archaeologists

A circle of deep shafts has been discovered near the world heritage site of Stonehenge, to the astonishment of archaeologists, who have described it as the largest prehistoric structure ever found in Britain.

Four thousand five hundred years ago, the Neolithic peoples who constructed Stonehenge, a masterpiece of engineering, also dug a series of shafts aligned to form a circle spanning 1.2 miles (2km) in diameter. The structure appears to have been a boundary guiding people to a sacred area because Durrington Walls, one of Britain’s largest henge monuments, is located precisely at its centre. The site is 1.9 miles north-east of Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain, near Amesbury, Wiltshire.

Prof Vincent Gaffney, a leading archaeologist on the project, said: “This is an unprecedented find of major significance within the UK. Key researchers on Stonehenge and its landscape have been taken aback by the scale of the structure and the fact that it hadn’t been discovered until now so close to Stonehenge.”
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That something so large & significant could have only just been discovered is very interesting.
 
JacksinPA said:
Vast neolithic circle of deep shafts found near Stonehenge | Science | The Guardian

Exclusive: prehistoric structure spanning 1.2 miles in diameter is masterpiece of engineering, say archaeologists

A circle of deep shafts has been discovered near the world heritage site of Stonehenge, to the astonishment of archaeologists, who have described it as the largest prehistoric structure ever found in Britain.

Four thousand five hundred years ago, the Neolithic peoples who constructed Stonehenge, a masterpiece of engineering, also dug a series of shafts aligned to form a circle spanning 1.2 miles (2km) in diameter. The structure appears to have been a boundary guiding people to a sacred area because Durrington Walls, one of Britain’s largest henge monuments, is located precisely at its centre. The site is 1.9 miles north-east of Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain, near Amesbury, Wiltshire.

Prof Vincent Gaffney, a leading archaeologist on the project, said: “This is an unprecedented find of major significance within the UK. Key researchers on Stonehenge and its landscape have been taken aback by the scale of the structure and the fact that it hadn’t been discovered until now so close to Stonehenge.”
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That something so large & significant could have only just been discovered is very interesting.
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That's interesting that it hasn't been discovered before now.

Do you believe in ley lines? I'm reading into them. Not sure if it's scientifically valid or not, but the idea behind it is certainly interesting.
 
Superfly said:
That's interesting that it hasn't been discovered before now.

Do you believe in ley lines? I'm reading into them. Not sure if it's scientifically valid or not, but the idea behind it is certainly interesting.
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New to me. i'd have to see more data.

Right now I'm reading the history of the 1918 Spanish Flu. Makes COVID-19 look like the sniffles by comparison.
 
JacksinPA said:
New to me. i'd have to see more data.

Right now I'm reading the history of the 1918 Spanish Flu. Makes COVID-19 look like the sniffles by comparison.
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That is true, the last phase of the Blue Death, was far more dangerous than Covid-19!
One story I read, said the nurses went ahead and tied the toe tags on the patients who turned blue,
as they would die no matter what they did. or the story of a young nurse starting her 12 hour shift healthy,
and dying before the end of her shift!.
 
JacksinPA said:
New to me. i'd have to see more data.

Right now I'm reading the history of the 1918 Spanish Flu. Makes COVID-19 look like the sniffles by comparison.
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Kind of a metaphysical school of thought, but it's still interesting.

~ snip ~ Ley lines are kind of like latitude and longitude in one sense: They're not lines we can actually see on a map. But the theory is that big, important monuments (think Stonehenge and the Pyramids of Giza) are all running on a kind of energy highway that "connects" them. ~ snip ~

What are ley lines? | HowStuffWorks
 
JacksinPA said:
Vast neolithic circle of deep shafts found near Stonehenge | Science | The Guardian

Exclusive: prehistoric structure spanning 1.2 miles in diameter is masterpiece of engineering, say archaeologists

A circle of deep shafts has been discovered near the world heritage site of Stonehenge, to the astonishment of archaeologists, who have described it as the largest prehistoric structure ever found in Britain.

Four thousand five hundred years ago, the Neolithic peoples who constructed Stonehenge, a masterpiece of engineering, also dug a series of shafts aligned to form a circle spanning 1.2 miles (2km) in diameter. The structure appears to have been a boundary guiding people to a sacred area because Durrington Walls, one of Britain’s largest henge monuments, is located precisely at its centre. The site is 1.9 miles north-east of Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain, near Amesbury, Wiltshire.

Prof Vincent Gaffney, a leading archaeologist on the project, said: “This is an unprecedented find of major significance within the UK. Key researchers on Stonehenge and its landscape have been taken aback by the scale of the structure and the fact that it hadn’t been discovered until now so close to Stonehenge.”
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That something so large & significant could have only just been discovered is very interesting.
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Fascinating discovery. So many speculations can be made.
The article repeats the idea that those measurements were "paced off", implying the stride of a man - as opposed to measured with greater precision. It's interesting that the shafts in the southwest quadrant exhibit little or no precision in their distance from center, nor from each other, as opposed to the shafts in the northwest quadrant of the circle, which are tighter and more uniformly circular.

Perhaps the builders started by pacing off the hole locations initially. Then, discovering their inaccuracy, used some sort of tools to achieve greater precision in the northwest quadrant. Maybe a simple stick of a known length, flipped end to end for the distance, and a triangle or wedge to at the outset to tighten the pattern.

It's fun to think about, but absent any tool discovery, or other example of period calculation, we'll simply never know.
 
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