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30 Jan 07 - 09:11 PM (#1953065) Subject: BS: ancient village found near Stonehenge From: Elmer Fudd Archeologists have uncovered what may have been a village for workers or festival-goers near the mysterious stone circle called Stonehenge in England. The village was located at Durrington Walls, about three kilometres from Stonehenge, and is also the location of a wooden version of the stone circle. Eight houses have been excavated, and the researchers believe there were at least 25 of them, archeologist Mike Parker Pearson said Tuesday at a briefing held by the U.S. National Geographic Society. The village was carbon dated to about 2600 BC., about the same time Stonehenge was built. The Great Pyramid in Egypt was also built about then, said Mr. Parker Pearson of Sheffield University. Archeologists' trenches reveal clay floors of Neolithic houses at Durrington Walls, occupied by the builders of Stonehenge. Hundreds of people once lived in the enormous ancient settlement in the Stonehenge World Heritage site, said the team of archeologists, partly financed by the National Geographic Society and by the English Heritage. The small wooden houses had a central hearth, he said, and are almost identical to stone houses built in the Orkney Islands. The researchers speculated that Durrington Walls was a place for the living and Stonehenge – where several cremated remains have been found – was a cemetery and memorial. Both are connected to the Avon River by paths they called avenues. Mr. Parker Pearson said remains of stone tools, animal bones, arrowheads and other artifacts were uncovered in the village. Remains of pigs indicated that they were about nine months old when killed, which would mark a midwinter festival, he said. Mr. Parker Pearson said Stonehenge was oriented to face the midsummer sunrise and midwinter sunset, while the wooden circle at Durrington Walls faced the midwinter sunrise and midsummer sunset. Source: Associated Press |
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30 Jan 07 - 09:15 PM (#1953069) Subject: RE: BS: ancient village found near Stonehenge From: Beer Love to hear this kind of news. Thanks Beer (adrien) |
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30 Jan 07 - 09:23 PM (#1953074) Subject: RE: BS: ancient village found near Stonehenge From: Alba This is very exciting news. I look forward to hearing more about this find. Thanks for posting the info Elmer. Jude |
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30 Jan 07 - 10:47 PM (#1953115) Subject: RE: BS: ancient village found near Stonehenge From: Cluin It was probably centred around several concession stands and a tourist info booth. |
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31 Jan 07 - 06:45 AM (#1953333) Subject: RE: BS: ancient village found near Stonehenge From: John Hardly They are still looking for Scissorshenge and Paperhenge. Obviously, as history and archaeology has borne out, Stonehenge was able to smash Scissorshenge before Paperhenge was able to cover it. |
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31 Jan 07 - 06:58 AM (#1953341) Subject: RE: BS: ancient village found near Stonehenge From: curmudgeon More information and pictures are here -- Tom |
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31 Jan 07 - 07:22 AM (#1953356) Subject: RE: BS: ancient village found near Stonehenge From: Keith A of Hertford Now that they have found where the builders live, we might finally get it finished. |
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31 Jan 07 - 07:31 AM (#1953366) Subject: RE: BS: ancient village found near Stonehenge From: Richard Bridge There are also ancient rights of way in the area - mostly being buggered up by bypasses and idiots in parliament who decide to f*** up perfectly good common law principles about rights of way.... |
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31 Jan 07 - 07:38 AM (#1953378) Subject: RE: BS: ancient village found near Stonehenge From: Keith A of Hertford Not a right of way, but the path to the Avon, the Avenue mentioned in the first post, is about as wide as an 8 lane highway. There was nothing to stop you walking as far as the A30 last time I visited. |
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31 Jan 07 - 07:43 AM (#1953385) Subject: RE: BS: ancient village found near Stonehenge From: Scrump It's not mine. Have you tried the Lost & Found column in the Gazette & Herald? :-) ...I'll get me coat. |
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31 Jan 07 - 08:10 AM (#1953411) Subject: RE: BS: ancient village found near Stonehenge From: Jerry Rasmussen This is very exciting news! Thanks so much for posting it. Jeremiah |
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31 Jan 07 - 08:28 AM (#1953426) Subject: RE: BS: ancient village found near Stonehenge From: Bunnahabhain Odd time of year for this to come out. Most digs are carried out over the summer. |
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31 Jan 07 - 10:10 AM (#1953517) Subject: RE: BS: ancient village found near Stonehenge From: Liz the Squeak Is anyone else out there going 'well duh'? Did it never occur to anyone that there had to be a settlement nearby? It's bad enough dragging the building materials all the way from the Preseli mountains (all the way down the Chanterbury ringroad, avoiding earthworks at Avebury), without having to shuttle the workforce in from Salisbury as well. LTS |
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31 Jan 07 - 10:53 AM (#1953555) Subject: RE: BS: ancient village found near Stonehenge From: greg stephens An Interpretative Centre, no doubt. |
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31 Jan 07 - 12:59 PM (#1953697) Subject: RE: BS: ancient village found near Stonehenge From: Bee Very interesting. Perfect example of worker oppression by the upper clases, making 'em walk three km. to and from work. Which is actually to say, why so far from the henge, if workers lived there? |
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31 Jan 07 - 02:27 PM (#1953760) Subject: RE: BS: ancient village found near Stonehenge From: JohnInKansas If, as is generally speculated, Stonehenge was - or was to be - essentially a cemetary, and/or a place for sacred rituals like staring at the sun, living at or very near the 'henge might have violated sacred beliefs? John |
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31 Jan 07 - 02:34 PM (#1953766) Subject: RE: BS: ancient village found near Stonehenge From: MMario Who wants to live in a cunstruction zone? |
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31 Jan 07 - 02:50 PM (#1953782) Subject: RE: BS: ancient village found near Stonehenge From: GUEST,leeneia I wonder if they found any pottery. It would be interesting to know what other settlements have the same types. I cannot bring myself to believe that the Old Ones brought those huge stones all the way from Wales to Stonehenge. There must be some explanation - glacial erratics or something like that. If you like archeology, especially British archeology, then a great book about it is History from the Air by Richard Muir. I just bought myself a copy, (used) through Amazon. It doesn't cost much, and it is a fascinating book. You can see the outlines of prehistoric settlements, Roman forts, medieval villages, etc, all from the air. My library used to have a copy, and when they lost it, I decided I had to have my own. |
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31 Jan 07 - 02:54 PM (#1953788) Subject: RE: BS: ancient village found near Stonehenge From: MMario I thought they had actrually matched the stones to quarries in wales based on dressing marks? Or so I seem to recall. |
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31 Jan 07 - 03:01 PM (#1953797) Subject: RE: BS: ancient village found near Stonehenge From: JohnInKansas We (in the US) presumedly can't buy the original to bring it here, but admiration demands that we replicate: Carhenge Carhenge 2 Stonefridge Foamhenge non-biodegradeable FOAM Roadside America's collection of similar reflections of US admiration of great monuments of the world. John |
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31 Jan 07 - 03:05 PM (#1953802) Subject: RE: BS: ancient village found near Stonehenge From: Rapparee They've also found some of the stones underwater at a place where the builders would have had to cross water with them. But what I really, really want to know: Was it a Real Ale pub? Or one of the other kind? |
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31 Jan 07 - 04:46 PM (#1953889) Subject: RE: BS: ancient village found near Stonehenge From: Liz the Squeak Real Ale or Mead.. they don't call them the Beaker People for nothing!! LTS (stealing unashamedly from Flanders and Swann). |
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31 Jan 07 - 05:44 PM (#1953940) Subject: RE: BS: ancient village found near Stonehenge From: Bee I love Flanders and Swann, and no one I know has heard of them: "if the Great(?) hadn't intended us to eat people, he wouldn't have made them of meat!" And I do mean to learn to play "Have Some Madiera, M'Dear!" I saw a speculative documentary on the idea of bringing the quarried stones by boat. Ancient boats are an interesting subject, since people have been 'messing about in boats' pretty much since they learned how to chip wood with stone tools. Not many truly ancient boats survive, but I recall they found a very old example in a peat bog a couple years ago. |
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31 Jan 07 - 06:06 PM (#1953965) Subject: RE: BS: ancient village found near Stonehenge From: Naemanson The latest find was a building obviously built by the Scots. It had large arches and part of a name all written in gold letters. The name is MacDon... Should I get MY coat? |
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31 Jan 07 - 06:16 PM (#1953975) Subject: RE: BS: ancient village found near Stonehenge From: Liz the Squeak If the Juju had meant us not to eat people, he wouldn't have made us of meat! LTS |
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31 Jan 07 - 06:36 PM (#1953994) Subject: RE: BS: ancient village found near Stonehenge From: Metchosin I find this fascinating because it gets me speculating that some of my direct ancestors were probably partying there. Given the DNA history of Cheddar man, it seems reasonable to me, as some of my relatives lived close by and the origin of their surname and proximity to Woad Hill would seem to indicate that they were at least up to their armpits in blue dye. Perhaps their job at Stonehenge was to regularly paint the stones blue too, given that the bluestones at Stonehenge never have really been blue. LOL |
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31 Jan 07 - 07:11 PM (#1954025) Subject: RE: BS: ancient village found near Stonehenge From: The Fooles Troupe The local TV media has been obsessed with calling this an "underground village"!!! Since it's only a metre and a half below ground, that surly means that the people were tiny? Isn't that nice Mr Dawkins the guy who wrote "Stonehenge Decoded"??? :-) |
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31 Jan 07 - 07:42 PM (#1954057) Subject: RE: BS: ancient village found near Stonehenge From: Bee Thank you, LTS. Another great batch of tunes as inaccessible on vinyl as if in the deepest peat bog! At least, until after the cat's been $neutered$. |
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01 Feb 07 - 01:07 AM (#1954236) Subject: RE: BS: ancient village found near Stonehenge From: Greg B Probably 8 pubs, 2 hotels, and 4 knocking shops. |
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01 Feb 07 - 07:39 AM (#1954396) Subject: RE: BS: ancient village found near Stonehenge From: Beer Have to ask. What is a knocking shop? Never heard the term before. Is it like a whore house? Beer (adrien) |
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01 Feb 07 - 08:12 AM (#1954427) Subject: RE: BS: ancient village found near Stonehenge From: Scrump Beer, to answer your question - yes. |
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01 Feb 07 - 08:34 AM (#1954453) Subject: RE: BS: ancient village found near Stonehenge From: SqueezeMe Just a small and pedantic point. When I lived in that area many years ago, the Avon River mentioned in the original post was always referred to as the River Avon. This is not the first time in recent years that I have seen it written as the Avon River. Can any one explain this change? Has the Geographical Names Board (or similar august body) been buggering around with our heritage again? Information welcome. Thanks. |
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01 Feb 07 - 08:40 AM (#1954457) Subject: RE: BS: ancient village found near Stonehenge From: Rusty Dobro It changed to the Avon River about the time railway stations became train stations. |
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01 Feb 07 - 08:56 AM (#1954478) Subject: RE: BS: ancient village found near Stonehenge From: Scrump 'Avon' means the same as 'River', so 'River Avon' means 'River River' or 'Avon Avon' or 'Avon River'. So I guess it doesn't really matter which you use :-) But yes, it's normal to refer to the 'River Avon' (or just 'The Avon'). Or 'The River'... I'll get me coat. |
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01 Feb 07 - 09:02 AM (#1954490) Subject: RE: BS: ancient village found near Stonehenge From: Scrump Stonehenge was merely the scaffolding for a much greater structure that was never built, due to Wilts County Council not granting the developers planning permission. |
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01 Feb 07 - 12:21 PM (#1954702) Subject: RE: BS: ancient village found near Stonehenge From: Cluin It's part of the scaffolding for the Tower of Babel. Tower's gone, but some of the workman's crap is still lying around. |
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01 Feb 07 - 01:45 PM (#1954779) Subject: RE: BS: ancient village found near Stonehenge From: Charley Noble I'm eagerly awaiting the moment when the researchers translate some of the writing and are wondering what 'GETAWAY" could possibly mean! Naemanson- You have no couth! Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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01 Feb 07 - 01:51 PM (#1954782) Subject: RE: BS: ancient village found near Stonehenge From: MMario they have translated one fragmentary tablet. It says:"If one is to orient on the rising sun at the equinox but believe the equinox to occur on the longest day of the year then should not the current chief of the henge construction team ..." |
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01 Feb 07 - 02:43 PM (#1954834) Subject: RE: BS: ancient village found near Stonehenge From: Bill D LOLOLOL....Mario!! *tsk* |
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01 Feb 07 - 02:49 PM (#1954838) Subject: RE: BS: ancient village found near Stonehenge From: Cluin That explains the state of the henge then.... `tis a shambles. |
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05 Feb 07 - 11:20 PM (#1958609) Subject: RE: BS: ancient village found near Stonehenge From: Cluin Latest unearthing on the site... Neolithic Tupperware. |
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06 Feb 07 - 06:24 AM (#1958803) Subject: RE: BS: ancient village found near Stonehenge From: JennyO Ah - but does it have a lifetime guarantee against cracking, chipping or peeling? |
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06 Feb 07 - 08:31 AM (#1958899) Subject: RE: BS: ancient village found near Stonehenge From: GUEST,Mingulay at work Wondering how you can chip or peel anything with Tupperware. Do you have to work the edge as you would a flint tool, and once having peeled it what do you then keep it in if all you have is pieces of broken Tupperware? There could be a marketing opportunity for basket weavers here if only they could make them dishwasher proof and freezer and microwave safe. I also wonder if, in the future, we shall be known as Plasteolithic man. |
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06 Feb 07 - 03:17 PM (#1959408) Subject: RE: BS: ancient village found near Stonehenge From: GUEST,leeneia Plasteolithic man..good one, Mingulay. My husband's firm sometimes has to drill exploratory holes in landfills for environmental purposes. He tells me that they find foot after foot after foot of....newspaper. I think our era will be known as the Age of Paper. However, that is not to say that we could not also be Plasteolithic men. |
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06 Feb 07 - 03:19 PM (#1959412) Subject: RE: BS: ancient village found near Stonehenge From: MMario wouldn't it more likely be the "paleoplastic"? |
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06 Feb 07 - 04:55 PM (#1959547) Subject: RE: BS: ancient village found near Stonehenge From: Linda Kelly apparently they have found large traces of food remains which undoubtedly points towards the first ancient Tesco' Metro. |
