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Huge Ritual Arena Discovered Near Stonehenge

New submitter pabloApicco writes: A row of 90 megalithic stones has been found buried beneath a grassy bank only two miles from the world-famous site of Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England. Believed to have been a huge ritual monument, the long line of megalithic stones lies 3 feet underground, and was found using sophisticated radar equipment. “What we are starting to see is the largest surviving stone monument, preserved underneath a bank, that has ever been discovered in Britain and possibly in Europe,” said Vince Gaffney, an archaeologist at Bradford University who leads the Stonehenge Hidden Landscape project. “This is archeology on steroids.” Here's a satellite map of the new site.

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  1. Re:That's cool. by gl4ss · · Score: 3, Informative

    the map link sucks.

    would be fine if it outlined the area and placement or something.

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  2. Re:That's cool. by wheelbarrio · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is claimed to be a Neolithic structure; the earliest evidence of horse domestication in Britain is from Bronze Age times, military use even later.

  3. Re:How does it compare to Gobekli Tepe? by JMJimmy · · Score: 4, Informative

    Göbekli Tepe is 300m diameter, this one is ~475m diameter

  4. Re:Hmm by Rei · · Score: 3, Informative

    Fjjakkjalers is of course not Icelandic. And its formation is not Icelandic either - you don't see "jj", and the -ers sounds Dutch or something; in Icelandic, groups of people usually end in -menn (ex. Bandaríkjamenn), -endingar (ex. Íslendingar), or -ar or -jar, esp. verjar (ex. Frakkar or Pólverjar).

    What you're trying to say is something like "Sjálf(ur) fagna ég nýjum íslenskum harðstjórum okkar" (er (TH)að ekki?). What you wrote was something sort of like "I, for the benefit of the number one, welcome(adjective) new(different declension) Icelandic(yet another different declension) our overlords (not an Icelandic word)"

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