Survey of landscape suggests prehistoric monument was surrounded by two circular hedges
ORIGINAL ARTICLE AT THE GUARDIAN
The Monty Python knights who craved a shrubbery were not so far off the historical mark: archaeologists have uncovered startling evidence of The Great Stonehenge Hedge.
Inevitably dubbed Stonehedge, the evidence from a new survey of the Stonehenge landscape suggests that [...]
Earlier in the year, filming took place of the finale episode of series five and one of the film locations was Stonehenge. Here are a few amateur pics taken on the night – courtesy of someone called Scooty – you can see his Doctor Who photos here.
ORIGINAL ARTICLE AT BBC.CO.UK
Letters found in the British Library suggest that Silbury Hill in Wiltshire may originally have been built around a 40ft “totem pole”.
The two letters, from 1776, were written by Edward Drax of Bath, who hired miners to dig a shaft in Europe’s largest prehistoric man-made mound.
They detailed the discovery of a “perpendicular [...]
ORIGINAL ARTICLE AT THE HINDU
Stonehenge may have been used as a site where knowledge was communicated ritually, according to a new theory.
Lynne Kelly, La Trobe University doctoral researcher and science writer, has been working on technologies oral cultures used to present and pass on scientific knowledge.
Kelly demonstrated the constant changes in the archaeology at Stonehenge [...]
ORIGINAL ARTICLE AT ABOUT.COM
Michael Bott (director). 2009 (DVD). Standing With Stones – A Journey Through Megalithic Europe. Written and presented by Rupert Soskin, produced and directed by Michael Bott. 2 hours and 15 minutes, plus 1.5 hours of features. Illuminated Word, copyright 2007.
There are thousands upon thousands of megalithic monuments in England, Scotland, Ireland and [...]
Recently, there have been quite a few archaeological revelations coming to light from the result of a wildfire that swept the moors of Fylingdales, N. Yorkshire. One of the items discovered is a “unique” carved stone, thought to be 4,000 years old. An article about the stone (from CULTURE 24) is below but before reading that, [...]
THIS ARTICLE ORIGINALLY AT EASTERN DAILY PRESS
An iconic ancient monument uncovered by the tides on a Norfolk beach will soon be complete for the first time in a decade.
Scientists have been studying and preserving the Seahenge timber circle since it was excavated at Holme, near Hunstanton, in early 1999.
There were protests after archaeologists decided to [...]
ORIGINAL ARTICLE AT ARCHAEOLOGY BRIEFS
The team who worked on the Stonehenge Riverside Project in 2009 are to return to their findings to explain the eating habits of the people who built and worshipped at the stone circle over four thousand years ago. Once again led by Professor Mike Parker Pearson from the University of Sheffield, [...]
I am really pleased to announce that our film ‘Standing with Stones’ (see trailer in sidebar right) has been chosen from 100 entrants to be one of 19 films to be screened in the 2010 Archaeology Channel International Film and Video Festival. I have been told by the event’s organiser, Richard Pettigrew, that this year’s submissions [...]
This is really fun – go on, have a play! You know how much we complain about no access to this place …
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ORIGINAL ARTICLE AT SHEFFIELD UNIVERSITY
Led by Professor Mike Parker-Pearson of the Department of Archaeology at the University of Sheffield, archaeologists from several institutions have discovered a lost stone circle a mile from Stonehenge, on the west bank of the River Avon.
Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), the project team have discovered stones [...]
At first glance I thought this was just another of those modern follies but I soon realised that there is very serious intent behind this project and that this University of Liverpool experiment could very well answer some interesting questions about the construction of ancient sites. ORIGINAL ARTICLE AT ANTIQUITY.
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As part of its contribution towards [...]
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In November 12th 1955, as Albert Miller took a walk through his Pennsylvania property, named Meadowcroft, he noticed a freshly dug groundhog hole. Upon seeing the disturbed earth, the amateur archaeologist saw a chance to confirm his theory that Native Americans once lived on his land. He expanded the hole until he [...]
ORIGINAL ARTICLE AT THE PRESS & JOURNAL
A PREHISTORIC burial ground has been discovered on Skye.
Six slab-lined graves and six cremation pits have been unearthed on the excavation site close to Armadale pier on the Sleat peninsula. Experts say it is one of the most significant archaeological finds yet made in the Highlands.
Flint tools and urns [...]
THIS ARTICLE FROM THE BBC NEWS CHANNEL
Archaeologists have unearthed what they say could be a prehistoric Bronze Age burial site in central Oxford.
Experts say important chiefs may have been laid to rest at the site of the former Radcliffe Infirmary.
Land around the River Thames, known as the River Isis as it passes through Oxford, was [...]
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