New stuff about a very old site!!!
By ElicBxn
@ElicBxn (63568)
United States
July 22, 2010 6:20pm CST
I love history, I think I've mentioned that before. And one of the COOLEST sites I've ever been to is Stonehenge.
Now, they've discovered some new information about it using "radar"... I'm guessing its that ground penetrating radar, but it doesn't say...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38360404/ns/technology_and_science-science/
Anyway, this seems to redraw some of what we know about Stonehenge...
I'm so excited to hear about this, too bad it is going to stop here - at least for now. I know, they need to save some of these sites for the future, and more advanced excavation methods - still, its a shame that can't dig one "little" hole...
Oh, to live forever and know all that can be known!
Have you heard about this new discovery?
Does it excite you like it does me?
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13 responses
@Janey1966 (24170)
• Carlisle, England
23 Jul 10
It sure does and I nearly put up a discussion about it myself so I'm glad you have so I can say how wonderful it is for someone outside the UK to be just as excited as we are about this.
I cannot believe that we still know so little about Stonehenge, it's an amazing place..magical.
Long Meg and Her Daughters is another Stone Circle right here in Cumbria..and me and hubby visited it. We could touch the stones as it's up a hill on farmers' land and he allows the public onto it as he realises how important the site is.
Hope you like it!
http://www.english-lakes.com/long_meg.html
If I have mentioned it before to you..I apologise.
I cannot believe that we still know so little about Stonehenge, it's an amazing place..magical. Long Meg and Her Daughters is another Stone Circle right here in Cumbria..and me and hubby visited it. We could touch the stones as it's up a hill on farmers' land and he allows the public onto it as he realises how important the site is.
Hope you like it!
http://www.english-lakes.com/long_meg.html
If I have mentioned it before to you..I apologise.3 people like this
@ElicBxn (63568)
• United States
23 Jul 10
No you haven't ever mentioned them before (sent them to the roomie who loves this stuff too!)
I love old stuff, and the less known about them, the BETTER!
Now, these stones seem to be early Bronze age rather than late stone age like Stonehenge!
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@Janey1966 (24170)
• Carlisle, England
23 Jul 10
I take it the Bronze Age came after the Stone Age...course it did..what was I thinking! Haha!
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@paula27661 (15811)
• Australia
23 Jul 10
I know what you mean. I remember being in Rome years ago walking around in amazement looking at all the ruins and trying to imagine what it would have like when they were first built. What fascinated me the most was that while I was there they were still discovering more! I wanted to hang around and help the excavators look! It is fascinating stuff that’s for sure and I agree that one good reason to live forever would be for all we could learn!
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@ElicBxn (63568)
• United States
24 Jul 10
no, not petrified, rotted, but they can find indications where the holes were dug by that ground penetrating radar... they might be able to find some small indication of the wood, but petrification is a whole different thing, needs to be immersed in mineral rich water to do that
@BarBaraPrz (47125)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
23 Jul 10
I hadn't heard anything about it.
Thanks for the link.
Too bad they don't show an image of the wooden one.
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@BarBaraPrz (47125)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
23 Jul 10
I found an artist's rendition of it:
http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Photos-Stonehenge/ss/events/wl/062101stonehenge
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@alaskanray (4636)
• United States
23 Jul 10
It would make sense. I know that in ancient Israel they had a temporary tabernacle that they used while the permanent temple was being built. I imagine this structure will probably prove to be the same sort of thing.
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@GDTimothy (446)
• United States
23 Jul 10
The Henges are starting to confuse me. There's Stonehenge and Woodhenge, and now they have an underhenge? LOL! If they'd just let the women in there, I'm sure they'd have all that nasty dirt swept away in no time! And while they were discussing just how the place ought to be refurbished, the guys could actually get some archeology done, eh?
Okay, so I've just been a male chauvinist pig with my sweeping women comment - so sue me! Just having a bit of fun with it all.
Seriously though, yes it's fascinating. Will we ever know for sure what purpose all those henges served? Only when they let the sweepers in, I'm bettin'!
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well, you'd have to find different sweepers, I'm terrible!
will we ever know? probably not - unless the Doctor is right and they are marking a place for something really important!
@bobmnu (8157)
• United States
12 Oct 10
If you travel around the world you will find similar structures. In Korea they have what are called the Dolmen's (spelling?) which are extremely large stones set in a unnatural manner. Some believe these are terrority markers or burial sites.
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@scarlet_woman (23463)
• United States
31 Jul 10
it might be a good idea to save some for later technology..
i cringe at the thought of former site explorers using dynamite in egypt back in the day.
which a few did..
but having said that..yea,the suspense kills me.
but having said that..yea,the suspense kills me.1 person likes this
@commanderxo (1494)
• Canada
27 Jul 10
What WOULD be interesting to know is.....WHAT exactly would the people of "those days", be needing to search, with the aid of radar...never mind that they actually might have HAD it back then?
Now THAT'S a question I WOULD like answered by these history discoverers!
Hmmmm?
cdrxo
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@scififan43 (2434)
• United States
30 Jul 10
Stonehenge is a very interesting palce. I would like to go there someday but unsure if I will. it is amayzing what ground pratraing radar will do. I have seen it used in many differnt documentries. I have not heard heard of this discorery untill know. I will look at the link agian latter.
@scififan43 (2434)
• United States
30 Jul 10
I see, I wonder if anything new had been descovered there yet?
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@Torunn (8607)
• Norway
26 Jul 10
That is really cool!
I went to Stonehenge a couple of years ago with some friends, we got drenched. It started raining so heavily that we got drenched in 30 seconds. We were all convinced it was because we didn't have a proper sacrifice for the ancestors so they got upset with us ;-)
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@jaesine (16)
• Philippines
24 Jul 10
This is good news. Thanks for sharing this information. I have only known about Stonehenge because we studied it in History of Architecture. Discoveries like this are so interesting because they uncover more facts about ancient people. Is there already a proven fact of the main reason why prehistoric people build this Stonehenge and why was it arranged like that?
