Stonehenge...

[Chipchopper]

New monoliths discovered underground. Should they be re-erected ?

I say yes, yes, yes!!!

[Baldric]

What have they found, Link please

[Baldric]

Just found this,
why would you want them re-erected, it looks to me like they're still in situ as they are?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3224523/Stonehenge-II-Radar-search-reveals-giant-monument-4-500-years-ago-just-one-mile-famous-Wiltshire-site.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

[venator]

As they're still in what looks like original position, but toppled, it would be simple to re-erect them, but the academics will need quite a bit of time to agree that this would add to the value of the site as a whole.

Unless someone in the Fourth Reich aka EUSSR decides to issue our orders...

[Togo]

That is the best link at the moment Baldric. Yes they must be re-erected. But we all know what will happen. Even now some officious twerp is plotting a strategy to prevent it. Planning req. or something of the like.

[Robinia]

That's a computer generated image, they're under the ground.

Get digging Chipchopper....I'll just sit and watch :)

[Chipchopper]

I think I did say underground, Robinia.
I hadn't even seen the computer generated image when I posted, so dream on :-)

[Mosaic]

It's heartening to think what other discoveries are still lurking waiting for the Lidar to reveal them.

[Chipchopper]

Yes, Mosaic and just a few feet under the soil!
What I find intriguing is, why was they toppled and by whom ?

[jno]

it may have been much as our more recent ancestors would pull down an old church before building a new one, even if there's room for two. Or they may just have fallen over. The archaeologists don't give their reasoning.

[Tilly2]

That must have been an awesome sight when it was erected. Fantastic!
Thanks, Chip. I hadn't seen that.

[Peter Pedant]

// Yes, Mosaic and just a few feet under the soil!
What I find intriguing is, why was they toppled and by whom ?//

and I think Mosaic - if she has recovered from the battering in the immigrant/refugee thread - is the person to ask as she lectures in arch and anth

but neva mind you have my opinion first

if one culture ( stone/bronze springs to mind ) displaces another on sign is that the later circle is off-centre or intersects
like this scroll down to easter aquahorthies piccy
http://www.dayofarchaeology.com/tag/recumbent-stone-circle/

whereas at Durrington walls the stone have been laid and then earth tipped over them to form a wall - this give continuity not disconnection ( or conquest )

which means that the two cultures were related to each other and the later one succeeded and built on the earlier

I can tell you this will keep the archeologists yakking for years.....

[Mosaic]

Peter P, durr?
I'm up to speed with the facts - and din't post anything like what you seem to have ascribed to me....
More rigorous references m'boy, or are you actually trying to be the archest archie-ololgist in the finds tray?

[Mosaic]

Oh I read PP properly and I got it now!
Yeah, it's way cool stuff, just let it brew a few years.

[DTCwordfan]

So do I say yes.....

[DTCwordfan]

Archaelogists digging at Stonehenge in parallel to the work going on at Durrington Walls have discovered a neolithic manuscript which, it is believed, will change everything we know an understand about prehistoric writings.

Experts at Cambridge analysed the 4000 yr old document with a vast array of scientific instruments and it says,

"The DFS sale ends this Solstice"

[DaisyNonna]

What have you got against archaeology DTC?

[DTCwordfan]

Nothing, Daisy......a little injection of some humour, though some would say that DFS belong to past times to begin with.

My view is that if they can work out the orientation the stones were placed in to the ground, then go for unearthing it.....and who knows what else is down there. The fascinating thing in all of this is the power of GPR and sat-photography

[DaisyNonna]

My humour gene is missing

[DTCwordfan]

I could make a joke about that referring to stones, but I won't.

It's a great find, or rather uncovering of something that they knew was there, even back in 1810.

[Robinia]

I know what you said Chipchopper I was referring to baldric's post in my reply. Bit late now, sorry.
I'm disappointed you're not going to be out there with your spade though :)