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Miniature Stonehenge Discovered In Wiltshire, UK
CmdrGravy weighs in with exciting archaeological news, "one of the most important prehistoric finds in decades" according to the article: a miniature Stonehenge a mile from the famous site. "Bluehenge," as the find is being called because of the assumed color of its (now-missing) stones, is believed to have been put up around the time of Stonehenge, 5,000 years ago. "All that remains of the 60-ft.-wide Bluehenge are the holes of 27 giant stones set on a ramped mount. Chips of blue stone found in the holes appear to be identical to the blue stones used in Stonehenge. The four-ton monsters, made of Preseli Spotted Dolerite — a chemically altered igneous rock harder than granite — were mined in the Preseli Mountains in Pembrokeshire and then rolled, dragged, and floated the 200 miles to the site on the banks of the Avon in Wiltshire."
Miniature Stonehenge Discovered In Wiltshire, UK
Built by dwarfs, I would presume.
it was the Nelwyns just making a play pen for a Daikini baby?
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I'll bet it went something like this...
Artist: Look, look. Look, this is what I was asked to build. Eighteen inches. Right here, it specifies eighteen inches. I was given this napkin, I mean...
Ian: Forget this! F**k the napkin!!
Tell me something...it's still "We, the people"... right?
Over the past two years ther have been a huge amount of archaeology excavation work in the Stonehenge area. Last year it was mostly close to the henge itself.
This year the excavations have been off to the North West up the A344 closer to Airmans Corner
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?X=412500&Y=142500&A=Y&Z=120
Even this article is published in the "Daily Wail" I suspect there is a lot more details to emerge over the coming months.
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Well, they intended it to be big, but the designers got the signs for feet and inches mixed up.
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No one knows what gods they worshipped, but the alignment of Stonehenge to the solstice shows that the Sun - and maybe the Moon - was important.
Looking at the monument and knowing what it would take to build it, I think it's obvious.They may have worshiped the Sun, but they prayed to Joe Pesci.
I find it absolutely amazing that people 5000 years ago were able to move 4000 kilo rocks over hundreds of kilometres of landscape.
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So the site was only 1 mile away from Stonehenge, along a path directly from it, with 27 holes each made by a 4 ton rock? The holes must have been preserved seeing as the blue remains of the rocks still remained in them. What's next, additional pyramid discoveries?
At last! The fabled gift shop of the druids has been found!
Four-ton stones are miniscule compared to the 50-ton trilithons at big Stonehenge or the over 1100-ton Stone of the South at Baalbek in Lebanon.
It boggles the mind that primitive people would want to erect such monumental structures when smaller stones would have been orders of magnitude easier to cut and transport. As the Romans, the Aztecs and the Maya have shown, it's possible to create impressive monuments with smaller stones. In my opinion, some among the ancient priesthoods had secret knowledge of a technology that allowed them to levitate and transport huge stones over great distances. Too bad they died without leaving a record of it. I have excellent cause to believe that the secret of levitation will be uncovered soon.
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Before Stonehenge, there was Woodhenge and Strawhenge. (But a big bad wolf came along...)
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It's blue and it's a small scale of the real thing.
That's what we call a "blueprint".
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Isn't that just the way it goes, you put up a great circle of stones, your house smartly in the middle; the missus, the kids and the in laws are all finally giving you the praise you deserve, and what does your neighbour go and do?
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Bluehenge? sounds like IBM made
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Rolled? Floated???
Occam's Razor.
They were simply transported there by the Ancients' extraterrestrial guides using their interstellar spacecraft.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe
Its lowest layer is dated 9130-8800 BC. That's fucking 11,130 years ago. its the oldest place of worship. Also :
Göbekli Tepe is the oldest human-made place of worship yet discovered.[2] Until excavations began, a complex on this scale was not thought possible for a community so ancient. The massive sequence of stratification layers suggests several millennia of activity, perhaps reaching back to the Mesolithic. The oldest occupation layer (stratum III) contains monolithic pillars linked by coarsely built walls to form circular or oval structures. So far, four such buildings, with diameters between 10 and 30m have been uncovered. Geophysical surveys indicate the existence of 16 additional structures.
Stratum II, dated to Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) (7500 - 6000 BC), has revealed several adjacent rectangular rooms with floors of polished lime, reminiscent of Roman terrazzo floors. The most recent layer consists of sediment deposited as the result of agricultural activity.
Moreover, this is more important - it seems to be the place where mankind first domesticated wheat :
While the site formally belongs to the earliest Neolithic (PPN A), up to now no traces of domesticated plants or animals have been found. The inhabitants were hunters and gatherers who nevertheless lived in villages for at least part of the year.[7] Schmidt speculates that the site played a key function in the transition to agriculture; he assumes that the necessary social organization needed for the creation of these structures went hand-in-hand with the organized exploitation of wild crops. For sustenance, wild cereals may have been used more intensively than before; perhaps they were even deliberately cultivated. Recent DNA analysis of modern domesticated wheat compared with wild wheat has shown that its DNA is closest in structure to wild wheat found on Mount Karaca Da 20 miles away from the site, leading one to believe that this is where modern wheat was first domesticated.[8]
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Landing site.
It's almost twice as old as the earth!
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According to the article it was actually built by the same druids, they were just following a a set of instructions that said each stone should be nine spans high instead of the intended 9 cubits high. Needless to say, the head druid was furious at the unveiling ceremony and was reported to have had the stones crushed by a dwarf that wandered by.
Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure everything I just said is completely wrong.
Its not uncommon when taking on a project, to first create a scaled down model first, so to help discover and work out project problems. To bad they can't find teh blue prints huh?
even back then they had problem with dupes. Dang.
But these were not the druids you were looking for...
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Smaller and nearby? It's the GPU!
(Also, insert obligatory IBM/BlueHenge joke.)
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How many more henges are we going to find? Why isn't the word henge used more in day-to-day conversation?
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9130 - 8800 BC? That is an important find! I remember when I was digging through information about older cultures out of boredom (I know...seriously) I was impressed that most of the oldest cultures documented extensively existed in Egypt and Asia (China, India, and even Japan). I had hard time finding any information about ancient European and Semitic cultures. That is pretty impressive that there is a temple predating the Egyptian civilization in Turkey. I wonder if any influence or link can be traced between it and the Phoenician culture...
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I disagree with the notion that the stones were dragged from Wales. Surely if the stone was so impressive, the henge would have been built near the actual source. The whole area would have been sacred, and mined into temples. Alternatively, there were ice sheets extending down pretty much as far as Wiltshire, certainly covering the Bristol Channel. The whole area was probably littered with drop stones brought from Wales, which have been spotted and collected by the ancient builders. And I'm pretty sure there was a TV program regarding Bluehenge some years ago. This is standard Daily Fail "news".
So how the hell can you be sure what they looked like? They could have been totem poles or something.. just happened to be arranged in a similar round pattern, which is most likely common for that era of man ( think sun/moon god worship ).
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here in the UK Channel 4's "Time Team" covered some of the recent excavations in the Stonehenge area in a couple of episodes earlier this year - this includes the initial discovery of this 'Bluehenge' site, although when the programmes were made they had not got as far as finding the evidence for a complete henge at this site.
check out the two 'specials' here and here. fwiw, the second programme is the more detailed of the two and covers more of the later discoveries.
these recent digs are particularly interesting because they're the most up-to-date excavations to have taken place in the Stonehenge area so far, and they also include the re-excavations of older digs which took place before we had some of our modern techniques, technologies and understanding.
truly fascinating stuff! :)
Consider:
- Negative ions are good for health (a reference would be good here ready for challenging that; one I remember involved using a negative charge to prevent or treat gum disease in dentistry)
- Negative ions are more common in flowing water; is Bluehenge & Stonehenge built over a lay line (Druid name) -aquifer (hydrogeological term)
- Charge can be measured with a multimeter so try this: measure voltage with a node in each hand before and after:
1) a brisk swim in the sea
2) 10mins of Tai Chi
3) A mountain climb
- large masses, like big stones concentrate that negative charge with increased density moving charge from the underlying water to the air
Why not:
- delicately pick THOUGHT OUT holes in each stage of this idea
- some references I can read about such as Electro/chemical/biological(sp?) charge
- anything else you've heard on this subject
I'm expecting quack remarks, which is fine but I hope there is some back up to it.
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I wonder if any influence or link can be traced between it and the Phoenician culture...
There's no link. A LOT happened in the 5-6000 years between this and the time Phoenician culture arose (2000-1500 BC). I'm sure there was influence, but nothing you could trace directly. Nearly every culture in the region could claim the same influence, and there were a lot of them.
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According to the article it was actually built by the same druids
Sorry but druids had nothing to do with Stonehenge, they first appeared in England thousands of years after Stonehenge has erected.
Druids: 200 BCE or earlier - 200 century CE
Stonehenge: 3000-2100 BCE
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Druids: 200 BCE or earlier - 200 century CE Stonehenge: 3000-2100 BCE
Actually, I have it from a very reliable source that the druids were around hundreds of years before the dawn of history.
Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure everything I just said is completely wrong.
Something like this happened for real - the band Black Sabbath wanted a Stonehenge-style stage set for their 1983/84 tour, but someone got confused between imperial and metric measurements (I don't know, maybe they used metres instead of feet) and they ended up with a Stonehenge replica much larger than the original (and too large to fit in most venues). From what I could figure out, they still have it in a (big) warehouse somewhere. And apparently this was the inspiration for the Spinal Tap Stonehenge bit.
I have no mod points to mod this up. But I would. Most archaeologists prefer to avoid clairvoyant claims about evidence.
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Bleach is chock full of negative ions, I wouldn't recommend it as a health tonic.
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t shapes are probably used for representing humans. ie, some of the shapes appear to be holding small animals under their 'arms'.
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hmm, sounds like a cleric-al error.
They found chips of stone that are blue, that they assume are part of the stones that comprised the wholes structure.
As for how and why it was used, that's still a mystery, but some ideas people float stand to reason.
Just like the rest of science, we're not certain about the laws of physics, but from what we can tell, it makes sense.
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So it was built by little blue men instead of little green ones?
It was built by Nac Mac Feegles?
I musthave been a very big bottle of Special Sheep Linament to get them to finish something that impressive.
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