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Stonehenge investigations continue
ARCHAEOLOGISTS from around the country are investigating Stonehenge and the surrounding areas in, and visitors are being invited to come along to see history brought to life.
As part of the ongoing Riverside Project experts are going to be digging at sites near the ancient stones to find out more about their links with Stonehenge itself.
Many who visit the stones may not know they are part of a complex series of monuments on Salisbury Plain, including the 3k-long Stonehenge Cursus and Durrington Walls, Britain's largest henge, which were inhabited at the same time the sarsen stones were put up at about 2600-2500BC.
This year, archaeologists are hoping to discover where Stonehenge's builders lived in the centuries before (3000-2600 BC), when the earliest stages of Stonehenge were built.
As well as the digging going on, between August 18 and September 12, around Stonehenge and on the Cursus, part of the solstitial processional route will also be excavated to find out how long the course was, and whether stones were shaped before being put up.
Aubrey Hole is also being re-dug at the moment, in order to recover and analyse prehistoric cremations put there by archaeologists in 1935, and areas believed to be inhabited by the builders of Stonehenge are also due to be excavated.
Visitors are welcome between 10am and 4pm every day until September 12 and there are special open days being held on September 6 and 7 between 10am and 4pm, starting at Woodhenge car park.
A shuttle bus will transport people to the excavations where there will be re-enactors and archaeologists, including Time Team's Phil Harding.
For further information or to receive a map of recommended walking routes around the local area call 07775 674816.
8:42am Friday 22nd August 2008
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CommentPosted by: Garry Denke, Plano, Texas, USA on 12:37pm Fri 22 Aug 08
Aubrey Hole 7, Heelstone Core 7
http://www.geocities
.com/garrydenke
Aubrey Hole 7, Heelstone Core 7
http://www.geocities
.com/garrydenke
Posted by: Garry Denke, Plano, Texas, USA on 12:42pm Mon 25 Aug 08
Michael's idea of digging Aubrey Hole 7 and Heelstone Core 7 now, instead of waiting until 2012, will save Peter, Mary, and Alun's [italic]grave error[/italic] (Fargo Plantation).
Thanks to Michael's idea, digging Aubrey Hole 7 and Heelstone Core 7 now, costs exceeding £20m for siting a temporary Stonehenge visitor centre, are saved.
Sun of Righteousness at Heelstone
Michael's idea of digging Aubrey Hole 7 and Heelstone Core 7 now, instead of waiting until 2012, will save Peter, Mary, and Alun's
grave error (Fargo Plantation).
Thanks to Michael's idea, digging Aubrey Hole 7 and Heelstone Core 7 now, costs exceeding £20m for siting a temporary Stonehenge visitor centre, are saved.
Sun of Righteousness at Heelstone
Posted by: John Ellis on 12:18pm Tue 26 Aug 08
Mr. Denke offers another good reason for having a [italic][bold]Destruct Button[/bold] [/italic] operational when two or more readers call for the Editor to remove passages of irrelevance such as the two above. I note that the same comments appear more appropriately below another Journal ‘[italic]most read[/italic]’ news report about archaeologist excavations in the area. Why does the man from Plano, Texas only pop up with unintelligible text when Stonehenge is the subject? Is he an a former resident Druid? . . . . that will surely bring a response!
Whilst the identification shy “name and address supplied” offers a solution which cannot be achieved and reveals scant knowledge of the problem in depth, rather like our MP Robert Key whose preference is similar, John Wigglesworth is evidently much better informed with his conclusion that the infrastructure is of paramount importance.
It is a pity that the Journal continues to publish letters, anonymous to boot, which repeat the grand idea of dualling the road where it is contrary to the spirit of the World Heritage Convention. Such a road, built in one of the world’s most archaeologically sensitive landscapes where new artefacts and burials continue to be found, is a non-starter.
I should also mention that the Countess Road flyover, usually an essential feature of such proposals, is an expensive item and to add another at Long Barrow roundabout at the other end of the World Heritage Site would almost double the cost before a metre of new road was built. That price is not one a cash-strapped government would spend in an area where no extra votes likely to result.
Mr. Denke offers another good reason for having a
Destruct Button operational when two or more readers call for the Editor to remove passages of irrelevance such as the two above. I note that the same comments appear more appropriately below another Journal ‘
most read’ news report about archaeologist excavations in the area. Why does the man from Plano, Texas only pop up with unintelligible text when Stonehenge is the subject? Is he an a former resident Druid? . . . . that will surely bring a response!
Whilst the identification shy “name and address supplied” offers a solution which cannot be achieved and reveals scant knowledge of the problem in depth, rather like our MP Robert Key whose preference is similar, John Wigglesworth is evidently much better informed with his conclusion that the infrastructure is of paramount importance.
It is a pity that the Journal continues to publish letters, anonymous to boot, which repeat the grand idea of dualling the road where it is contrary to the spirit of the World Heritage Convention. Such a road, built in one of the world’s most archaeologically sensitive landscapes where new artefacts and burials continue to be found, is a non-starter.
I should also mention that the Countess Road flyover, usually an essential feature of such proposals, is an expensive item and to add another at Long Barrow roundabout at the other end of the World Heritage Site would almost double the cost before a metre of new road was built. That price is not one a cash-strapped government would spend in an area where no extra votes likely to result.
Posted by: Garry Denke, Plano, Texas, USA on 1:44pm Tue 26 Aug 08
But another John Ellis off-topic comment.
Most interesting are the Aubrey Hole's and the Heelstone's detailed records because we already know what is buried there. Retrieving these items appropriately stored for our future study is not destructive, it is what the Spirit of science is all about. Long live King Arthur, the Wallies, and Hell's Angels.
http://infoex.hemsco
tt.net/MESSAGES/1507
206.HTM
But another John Ellis off-topic comment.
Most interesting are the Aubrey Hole's and the Heelstone's detailed records because we already know what is buried there. Retrieving these items appropriately stored for our future study is not destructive, it is what the Spirit of science is all about. Long live King Arthur, the Wallies, and Hell's Angels.
http://infoex.hemsco
tt.net/MESSAGES/1507
206.HTM
Posted by: Garry Denke, Plano, Texas, USA on 4:10pm Wed 3 Sep 08
[bold]Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of what they believe to be a 20ft fence designed to screen Stonehenge from the view of unworthy Stone Age Britons.[/bold]
Denke's Stonehenge Snow Fence Confirmed
The dig's co-director Dr Josh Pollard, of Bristol University, said: "The construction must have taken a lot of manpower. The palisade is an open structure which would not have been defensive and was too high to be practical for controlling livestock. It certainly wasn’t for hunting herded animals and so, like everything else in this ceremonial landscape, we have to believe it must have had a religious significance. The most plausible explanation is that it was built at huge cost to the community to screen the environs of Stonehenge from view. Basically, we think it was to keep the lower classes from seeing what exactly their rulers and the priestly class were doing."
Mike Pitts, editor of British Archaeology Magazine and author of the book Hengeworld, said: "This is a fantastic insight into what the landscape would have looked like. This huge wooden palisade would have snaked across the landscape, blotting out views to Stonehenge from one side. The other side was the ceremonial route to the Henge from the River Avon and would have been shielded by the contours. The palisade would have heightened the mystery of whatever ceremonies were performed and it would have endowed those who were privy to those secrets with more power and prestige. In modern terms, you had to be invited or have a ticket to get in."
--
The Climate of Prehistoric Britain
http://antiquity.ac.
uk/Ant/001/0412/Ant0
010412.pdf
Yes. Perfect.
G-D
--
[bold]Denke's Stonehenge Snow Fence Confirmed[/bold]
http://www.dailymail
.co.uk/sciencetech/a
rticle-1050935/Revea
led-The-5-000-year-o
ld-20ft-high-fence-h
id-Stonehenge-nosy-S
tone-Age-neighbours.
html
http://www.telegraph
.co.uk/news/newstopi
cs/howaboutthat/2655
187/Stonehenge-was-h
idden-from-lower-cla
sses.html
http://www.britainne
ws.net/story/401304
Denke's Stonehenge Snow Fence was a structure used to force drifting of snow to occur in a predictable place on Salisbury Plain, rather than in a more natural method. Denke's Stonehenge Snow Fence was employed to minimize the amount of snowdrift over Stonehenge fields. Ancient farmers and ranchers used Denke's Stonehenge Snow Fence to create large drifts for a ready supply of water in the spring.
Denke's Stonehenge Snow Fence was constructed of large Oak Wooden Poles set deeply into the ground with large Oak Wooden Planks running vertically across them. The drifting of snow behind Denke's Stonehenge Snow Fence followed the laws of physics as the pressure on the downwind side was less than that on the windward side, which allowed the light material snow (and Luau leaves) to settle there.
http://en.wikipedia.
org/wiki/Snow_fence
Garry W. Denke
Geologist/Geophysici
st
http://www.garrydenk
e.com
http://www.denocoinc
.com
--
The Climate of Prehistoric Britain
http://antiquity.ac.
uk/Ant/001/0412/Ant0
010412.pdf
[bold]Yes. Perfect.[/bold]
G-D
Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of what they believe to be a 20ft fence designed to screen Stonehenge from the view of unworthy Stone Age Britons.
Denke's Stonehenge Snow Fence Confirmed
The dig's co-director Dr Josh Pollard, of Bristol University, said: "The construction must have taken a lot of manpower. The palisade is an open structure which would not have been defensive and was too high to be practical for controlling livestock. It certainly wasn’t for hunting herded animals and so, like everything else in this ceremonial landscape, we have to believe it must have had a religious significance. The most plausible explanation is that it was built at huge cost to the community to screen the environs of Stonehenge from view. Basically, we think it was to keep the lower classes from seeing what exactly their rulers and the priestly class were doing."
Mike Pitts, editor of British Archaeology Magazine and author of the book Hengeworld, said: "This is a fantastic insight into what the landscape would have looked like. This huge wooden palisade would have snaked across the landscape, blotting out views to Stonehenge from one side. The other side was the ceremonial route to the Henge from the River Avon and would have been shielded by the contours. The palisade would have heightened the mystery of whatever ceremonies were performed and it would have endowed those who were privy to those secrets with more power and prestige. In modern terms, you had to be invited or have a ticket to get in."
--
The Climate of Prehistoric Britain
http://antiquity.ac.
uk/Ant/001/0412/Ant0
010412.pdf
Yes. Perfect.
G-D
--
Denke's Stonehenge Snow Fence Confirmed
http://www.dailymail
.co.uk/sciencetech/a
rticle-1050935/Revea
led-The-5-000-year-o
ld-20ft-high-fence-h
id-Stonehenge-nosy-S
tone-Age-neighbours.
html
http://www.telegraph
.co.uk/news/newstopi
cs/howaboutthat/2655
187/Stonehenge-was-h
idden-from-lower-cla
sses.html
http://www.britainne
ws.net/story/401304
Denke's Stonehenge Snow Fence was a structure used to force drifting of snow to occur in a predictable place on Salisbury Plain, rather than in a more natural method. Denke's Stonehenge Snow Fence was employed to minimize the amount of snowdrift over Stonehenge fields. Ancient farmers and ranchers used Denke's Stonehenge Snow Fence to create large drifts for a ready supply of water in the spring.
Denke's Stonehenge Snow Fence was constructed of large Oak Wooden Poles set deeply into the ground with large Oak Wooden Planks running vertically across them. The drifting of snow behind Denke's Stonehenge Snow Fence followed the laws of physics as the pressure on the downwind side was less than that on the windward side, which allowed the light material snow (and Luau leaves) to settle there.
http://en.wikipedia.
org/wiki/Snow_fence
Garry W. Denke
Geologist/Geophysici
st
http://www.garrydenk
e.com
http://www.denocoinc
.com
--
The Climate of Prehistoric Britain
http://antiquity.ac.
uk/Ant/001/0412/Ant0
010412.pdf
Yes. Perfect.
G-D
Posted by: Garry Denke, Plano, Texas, USA on 8:17pm Sun 21 Sep 08
UK Cursus Snow Fences
Journal of Climate
American Meteorological Society
Volume 10, Issue 1 (January 1997)
A GCM Simulation of the Climate 6000 Years Ago
Nicholas M. J. Hall and Paul J. Valdes
Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom
ABSTRACT
Two 10-yr integrations of the UGAMP GCM are presented. Each has a full seasonal cycle, T42 resolution, interactive land and sea ice, and prescribed sea surface temperatures. They differ in that one integration represents present day climate (PD) and the other has a perturbed orbit and reduced atmospheric concentrations of CO2 appropriate to the climate of 6000 years ago (6 kyr, hereafter 6k). The 6k integration produces enhanced continental warmth during summer and cold during winter. Changes in atmospheric temperature gradients brought about by the surface response lead to altered jet stream structures and transient eddy activity, which in turn affect precipitation patterns. Tropical “monsoon”-type circulation patterns are also affected, also leading to altered precipitation. Many of the changes in hydrology mimic the geological record remarkably well: the Sahel is much wetter, as are the midwestern United States and the Mediterranean regions; California and northern Europe are drier. Processes leading to the model’s surface responses in both temperature and hydrology are described in detail. Finally, the sensitivity of the results to an alternative, objective definition of the 6k calendar is investigated. This sensitivity is found to be smaller than the overall signal to the extent that the principal conclusions are not altered.
http://ams.allenpres
s.com/perlserv/?requ
est=get-document&doi
=10.1175%2F1520-0442
(1997)010%3C0003%3AA
GSOTC%3E2.0.CO%3B2&c
t=1#I1520-0442-10-1-
3-F03E
Snow Fences: Ireland, Wales, Scotland, England; 200 Cursus
http://www.ancient-w
isdom.co.uk/cursus.h
tm
United Kingdom Cursus Snow Fences
“ North of these Rocks lies a Great snow fence... ”
- Dr. Garry Denke 1656 Diary
UK Cursus Snow Fences
Journal of Climate
American Meteorological Society
Volume 10, Issue 1 (January 1997)
A GCM Simulation of the Climate 6000 Years Ago
Nicholas M. J. Hall and Paul J. Valdes
Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom
ABSTRACT
Two 10-yr integrations of the UGAMP GCM are presented. Each has a full seasonal cycle, T42 resolution, interactive land and sea ice, and prescribed sea surface temperatures. They differ in that one integration represents present day climate (PD) and the other has a perturbed orbit and reduced atmospheric concentrations of CO2 appropriate to the climate of 6000 years ago (6 kyr, hereafter 6k). The 6k integration produces enhanced continental warmth during summer and cold during winter. Changes in atmospheric temperature gradients brought about by the surface response lead to altered jet stream structures and transient eddy activity, which in turn affect precipitation patterns. Tropical “monsoon”-type circulation patterns are also affected, also leading to altered precipitation. Many of the changes in hydrology mimic the geological record remarkably well: the Sahel is much wetter, as are the midwestern United States and the Mediterranean regions; California and northern Europe are drier. Processes leading to the model’s surface responses in both temperature and hydrology are described in detail. Finally, the sensitivity of the results to an alternative, objective definition of the 6k calendar is investigated. This sensitivity is found to be smaller than the overall signal to the extent that the principal conclusions are not altered.
http://ams.allenpres
s.com/perlserv/?requ
est=get-document&doi
=10.1175%2F1520-0442
(1997)010%3C0003%3AA
GSOTC%3E2.0.CO%3B2&c
t=1#I1520-0442-10-1-
3-F03E
Snow Fences: Ireland, Wales, Scotland, England; 200 Cursus
http://www.ancient-w
isdom.co.uk/cursus.h
tm
United Kingdom Cursus Snow Fences
“ North of these Rocks lies a Great snow fence... ”
- Dr. Garry Denke 1656 Diary
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