Posts tagged Megaliths
What does the new henge mean for Stonehenge?
Jul 22nd
Confusion at Stonehenge
I don’t know.
I think the coverage at places like the BBC are good, David Gregory found it exciting and I thought his story was a good read. However there are too many details missing from the reports to come to any conclusions. That’s not a complaint about the coverage, the mass-media isn’t an archaeological journal. It’s not even a gripe about publication by press-release because Mike Parker Pearson showed last year that news leaks out, so why not give the brief details out properly?
On the other hand the Birmingham team are looking at the landscape and, from reading the reports, I’ve no idea where this new site is in relation to Stonehenge. It’s almost certainly in sight of Stonehenge, but then the landscape round there is littered with barrows, Bronze Age burial mounds. The location will affect how we see the landscape. This henge isn’t to be confused with Bluestonehenge, the site found by the river Avon near Stonehenge last year. It’s also not Woodhenge, despite being made of wood, because that’s a different site near Durrington Walls, which is another site that has been in the news in recent years.
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Bryn Celli Ddu
Jun 19th
Bryn Celli Ddu. Photo by AJ Bear.
An archaeologist has discovered that the passage into a burial mound on Anglesey was built to catch the rising sun on the summer solstice.Steve Burrow said he was “elated” when the sun filtered in through trees as he sat in the Bryn Celli Ddu chamber.
BBC NEWS | Wales | North West Wales | Ancient monument aligned to sun
I thought this was known already, but it seems not everyone accepted Lockyear’s measurements. I’m surprised that it was thought the measurements were the problem. I would have expected it to be the interpretation that was the problem. I’ll blog on this tomorrow at Revise and Dissent and i-Science. Right now I’m testing Flock.
