A giant neolithic structure, created 4,500 years ago, has been uncovered 1.9 miles (3 km) north-east of Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain near Amesbury, Wiltshire. It’s a tunnel that’s basically 2.9km long and it’s going to cost £1.6bn.“Colleagues who work in that business say, ‘You might as well add 40%.’ I think they’re saying [it’ll take] five to seven years to construct, so that would be continuous traffic jams, and there’s concern that the vibrations will actually impact on archaeological deposits, causing the ground to crack.”Parker Pearson had previously suggested that Durrington Walls lay within a “domain of the living” separated from a “domain of the ancestors” centred on Stonehenge. Samael is inmiddels bekroond tot hoofdact, terwijl Consolation, Lik, Hideous Divinity, Burial, Gaerea, Indominus, Putrefied Corpse en Sodomized Cadaver de line-up uitdiepen.Tickets zijn voor 30 euro te koop via het Facebookevenement van het festival. Fantastic. Tickets are available to book now. As with Stonehenge itself its purpose remains a mystery, but the mere detection of the 4,000-5,000-year-old structure, on such a vast scale and so close to one of the world's most recognized prehistoric sites, has left scientists in awe.Archaeologist and author Mike Pitts, who has written extensively on Britain's prehistory, congratulated the team behind the discovery of the Durrington pit structure in a tweet, and he appeared to marvel at the scale of the discovery.An animated digital map created by the research team, and shared online by the European Association of Archaeologists, shows the location of the pits in relation to Durrington Walls superhenge site, all of which sits only about two miles from Stonehenge itself. I feel we should consider the implication of these discoveries before a tragic loss ensues.”Parker Pearson said: “Vince and his team have identified various other shafts that may be part of other formations further over to the west, even nearer Stonehenge.
Deze geeft… Stonehenge equinox: 'Let's hope by solstice we're in a better place' Ancient site has closed due to coronavirus but some still camped out for the equinox sunrise Published: 20 Mar 2020 Posted 22 Jun June 2020 Mon Monday 22 Jun June 2020 at 5:20pm, updated 22 Jun June 2020 Mon Monday 22 Jun June 2020 at 9:46pm. "This astonishing discovery offers us new insights into the lives and beliefs of our Neolithic ancestors.
Most archaeologists around the world are horrified at what’s going on.” We just don’t know how many other big pits like that there are in the Stonehenge environs.”Through geophysical prospection, ground-penetrating radar and magnetometry, the shafts showed up as geophysical anomalies. He said: “What’s really pleasing for me is that it’s over 20 years now since we put that hypothesis together. and 1600 B.C.
But geophysical surveys allowed scientists to “join the dots and see there was a pattern on a massive scale.”Catch up on the developing stories making headlines.Britain is dotted with stone circles build thousands of years ago for reasons that remain mysterious.Researchers say the shafts appear to have been dug around 4,500 years ago, and could mark the boundary of a sacred area or precinct around a circular monument known as the Durrington Walls henge.24/7 coverage of breaking news and live eventsIt’s also a spiritual home for thousands of druids and mystics who visit at the summer and winter solstices -- though this weekend’s summer solstice celebrations were scuttled by a ban on mass gatherings because of the coronavirus pandemic.The most famous is Stonehenge, a huge monument built between 3000 B.C. that is one of Britain’s most popular tourist attractions.LONDON -- Archaeologists said Monday that they have discovered a major prehistoric monument under the earth near Stonehenge that could shed new light on the origins of the mystical stone circle in southwestern England.University of Bradford archaeologist Vince Gaffney said it was “remarkable” that Stonehenge, one of the most studied archaeological landscapes in the world, could yield such a major new discovery. "One's immediate reaction to this is disbelief," Pitts said, "yet however hard you try to take it apart it stands up. "The degree of similarity across the 20 features (pits) identified suggests that they could have formed part of a circuit of large pits around Durrington Walls," the paper says.