|
The Modern Antiquarian Forum » Stonehenge » More evidence on Stonehenge/Solar connections |
Log In to post a reply
|
|
|
|
| Topic View: Flat | Threaded | |
|
wychburyman 951 posts |
Nov 28, 2011, 15:22
|
||
|
Greetings neighbours More evidence on Stonehenge you may be interested in http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-15917921 |
|||
moss 2897 posts |
Nov 28, 2011, 15:56
|
||
|
wychburyman wrote: Greetings neighbours More evidence on Stonehenge you may be interested in http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-15917921 Greetings, Actually I did put a longer article on news about this....http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/102712/news/stonehenge_and_its_environs.html but if you read Tiompans comments on the subject, he says 'phooy' to the latest Stonehenge findings, they are way out. Still it is interesting and goes back to those postholes in the carpark as well..... All I can say cynically is that if you do an archaeological survey anywhere near Stonehenge is that you have to justify it by an exciting headline ....
|
|||
|
wychburyman 951 posts |
Nov 28, 2011, 16:00
|
||
|
moss wrote: wychburyman wrote: Greetings neighbours More evidence on Stonehenge you may be interested in http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-15917921 Greetings, Actually I did put a longer article on news about this....http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/102712/news/stonehenge_and_its_environs.html but if you read Tiompans comments on the subject, he says 'phooy' to the latest Stonehenge findings, they are way out. Still it is interesting and goes back to those postholes in the carpark as well..... All I can say cynically is that if you do an archaeological survey anywhere near Stonehenge is that you have to justify it by an exciting headline .... Thank you, very interesting, I would imagine they are under pressure to satisfy their funding masters, but I'll still stick to the science and the professionals.
|
|||
tiompan 5758 posts |
Nov 28, 2011, 17:02
|
||
|
wychburyman wrote: moss wrote: wychburyman wrote: Greetings neighbours More evidence on Stonehenge you may be interested in http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-15917921 Greetings, Actually I did put a longer article on news about this....http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/102712/news/stonehenge_and_its_environs.html but if you read Tiompans comments on the subject, he says 'phooy' to the latest Stonehenge findings, they are way out. Still it is interesting and goes back to those postholes in the carpark as well..... All I can say cynically is that if you do an archaeological survey anywhere near Stonehenge is that you have to justify it by an exciting headline .... Thank you, very interesting, I would imagine they are under pressure to satisfy their funding masters, but I'll still stick to the science and the professionals. Greetings , the phooy comment is science based ,if you want the details do ask , you can then compare the data with what little there has been from the professionals .
|
|||
|
Annexus Quam 926 posts |
Nov 28, 2011, 19:00
|
||
They've been toying with this idea that the early monument was built around the Heel Stone for a couple of years, suggesting that it was there from some time after the mesolithic posts. It certainly is an attractive idea as more and more menhirs (e.g.the ones in the Algarve) are giving very ancient dates and as more and more new research outside the UK is revealing equinox/solstice allignments with a low probability of it all being pure coincidence. Hasn't the Heel Stone's pit been dug for organic material (with modern methods, not 100 years ago)?
|
|||
|
tiompan 5758 posts |
Nov 28, 2011, 19:14
|
||
|
Annexus Quam wrote: They've been toying with this idea that the early monument was built around the Heel Stone for a couple of years, suggesting that it was there from some time after the mesolithic posts. It certainly is an attractive idea as more and more menhirs (e.g.the ones in the Algarve) are giving very ancient dates and as more and more new research outside the UK is revealing equinox/solstice allignments with a low probability of it all being pure coincidence. Hasn't the Heel Stone's pit been dug for organic material (with modern methods, not 100 years ago)? The problem is that apart from the extreme conjecture about processions at the speed of sarsen movers their alignments are inaccurate i.e. the pit does not align with the solstice sun set being about five weeks out . Even if it was spot on , (which it clearly isn't ) it is simply a pit that we know nothing about , it could be from any date and certainly wouldn't indicate any intention on behalf of the builders .
|
|||
|
Resonox 604 posts |
Nov 28, 2011, 19:27
|
||
|
Who originally named The Heel Stone thus...and when? I know it is supposed to be a corruption of Helios Stone...and Helios being Greek(classical) for The Sun....are we trying to tie a name to a theory?
|
|||
|
Resonox 604 posts |
Nov 28, 2011, 19:27
|
||
|
Who originally named The Heel Stone thus...and when? I know it is supposed to be a corruption of Helios Stone...and Helios being Greek(classical) for The Sun....are we trying to tie a name to a theory?
|
|||
|
Resonox 604 posts |
Nov 28, 2011, 19:28
|
||
Now can someone tell me how to delete a double post....bah!
|
|||
|
Annexus Quam 926 posts |
Nov 28, 2011, 19:58
|
||
Of course I totally agree with you on that (unless the pit where the stone was originally stood is still somewhere under it!). Yet, interesting all the same that they are coming up with those theories (and why) if Mike Parker-Pearson (?) is still doing the excavations (for better or worse). In good-reasoned debate more than from the theory itself is where one always learns something.
|
| Pages: 6 – [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 | Next ] | Add a reply to this topic |
|
|
|
| The Modern Antiquarian Forum Index | |
