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Archaeologist Stuart Mendelsohn spotted two sites near the moors of Rochdale, believed to be ancient burial sites, during a walk on the hills in December.

English Heritage claimed that both sites were "possible of Bronze age date", suggesting that they could date back to 3,000 BC.

However, unlike the famous monument at Stonehenge, local materials are believed to have been used at the newly discovered sites.

The first site, made up of fallen stones, is 10.2m in overall diameter. The second, which includes the circle, is on the western slope.

The entire site covers an acre, according to an English Heritage report.

Tags: archaeology, england, megaliths, stonehenge, manchester, bronze age, science

'Breakthrough' at Stonehenge dig

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:03:32 GMT

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Archaeologists carrying out an excavation at Stonehenge say they have broken through to a layer that may finally explain why the site was built.

The team has reached sockets that once held bluestones - smaller stones, most now missing or uprooted, which formed the site's original structure.

The researchers believe that the bluestones could reveal that Stonehenge was once a place of healing.

The dig is the first to take place at Stonehenge for more than 40 years.

The team now needs to extract organic material from these holes to date when the stones first arrived.

They believe that the bluestones, which were transported 250km from the Preseli Hills in Wales to the Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, were brought to the site because the ancient people believed they had healing properties.

Tags: stonehenge, megaliths, england, archaeology, science

Stone Pages

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:58:17 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Information on European Megaliths and prehistoric sites...such as Stonehedge

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Giant concentric stone circle unearthed in Italy

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:09:26 GMT

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Last July excavations for the new Sant'Anna hospital in San Fermo della Battaglia, near Como (Italy), revealed a double concentric circle of ancient stones. Thought to date back to 3000 BCE, the site is a "highly articulated prehistoric structure that could be either an ancient astronomical observatory or a sacred space," according to Stefania Iorio, Archaeological Superintendent of the region. The diameter of the two circles is about 70 metres, and they are crossed by a sort of pathway, paved with stones.

Tags: archaeology, megaliths, stone circles, italy

Earth Mysteries - Ancient Sites and Landscapes

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:28:03 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Interesting site that investigates the things of earth that are revered or considered sacred. Stonehenge in particular, and the occurrence of ley lines through sacred sites in England and throughout the world is discussed.

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Earth Mysteries, a term coined in the early 1970s, is today used to describe a multi-disciplined or 'holistic' approach to the study of ancient sites and landscapes. It tends to fall largely outside the accepted range of mainstream research and is generally regarded with suspicion by academics. This site is intended to serve as an introduction to the various aspects of Earth Mysteries as a unique field of study.

ARCHAEOSTRONOMY AT STONEHENGE

Was the monument deliberately oriented and planned? And if so, why?

Biographical sketches of Sir Norman Lockyer, Gerald Hawkins and Alexander Thom who offer proof of their arguments.

Who Were The Druids?
The Original Britons
Sacred Science and the Megaliths

On the Special Nature of Glastonbury

Magical Glastonbury
History and some insight into the town's centrality to many of Britain's best-known legends.
Glastonbury Abbey
Its role in the development of the legends of King Arthur and St. Joseph of Arimathea.

Tags: mysteries, stonehenge, ley lines, druids, sacred stones, whitcombe

Wicca And Other Invented Traditions (Book Review)

Tue, 15 May 2007 02:30:04 GMT

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Historian Ronald Hutton delights in both debunking and celebrating paganism. His new study of the Druids will probably annoy their modern followers, but Gary Lachman finds him unrepentant

Hutton's most recent work, The Druids, a compact and lively account of what historians and other seekers of the past have made of these "appallingly insubstantial figures", could arguably be looked at as a history of the Druids in which no "real" Druid appears. The Druids left no writings, no images and no tombs. Accounts of them, from Tacitus down, are frustratingly inconclusive, and drift from anecdotal, to biased, to forged, to sheer invention. Most of us associate them with mistletoe, megaliths and human sacrifice, and the three turn up often enough; but the fact is that the Druids, at one time or another, have appeared as all things to all men.

Tags: wicca, history, druids, pagan, scholar, british

Was Stonehenge a hospital?

Mon, 04 Dec 2006 16:04:28 GMT

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clipper's remarks: New theories about the 5000 years old mysterious megalithic site of Britain.

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Not a fortress, or a temple, or a calendar. Stonehenge was a hospital

The new archaeological theory as to why huge monoliths were dragged from Wales to Salisbury Plain is utterly convincing

The Stonehenge mystery is solved. I always knew there was something odd about the "Amesbury archer". He died circa 2300BC and was rediscovered near the henge in Wiltshire in 2002, one of the most sensational prehistoric corpses ever found. His hair was laced with gold, the earliest found in England. His grave contained traces of fine clothes and implements of archery and copper-working. Analysis of his bones and teeth revealed that he came from central Europe, probably Switzerland, with possessions from Spain and France. Was this evidence of invasion? Was the Amesbury archer a Beaker lord of Stonehenge and were foreigners perhaps responsible for moving its giant bluestones from Wales?

One thing about the archer was strange. He was missing a kneecap, requiring him to walk with one leg rigid. Bone deterioration suggested that the deformity took place years before his death. He was an improbable warrior, more likely a rich trader. Besides, near him lay a younger male revealed (such being the wonders of science) as a close relative brought up in south-east England. So what was this wealthy but disabled man doing in the shadow of Stonehenge, far from his and his putative son's birthplace?

Cut to the hallowed meeting room of the Society of Antiquaries in London last October. It was packed with excited Stonehenge pundits (the serious ones), gathered to hear news from the front. The origin of Stonehenge is British archaeology's oldest unsolved mystery, its Fermat's last theorem. How the four-ton bluestones were brought to Salisbury Plain from the Preseli hills of south Wales has been answered by engineers, but nobody has found out why.

Tags: archaeology, england, salisbury, stonehenge, megaliths

Alien Writings and Symbols

Mon, 20 Nov 2006 11:33:23 GMT

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At the time of the famous crash landing of an UFO with Roswell, in July 1947, Jesse Marcel had recovered the remains which contained strange symbols. Thereafter his/her son could reproduce those thanks to hypnosis:

Look at these inscriptions:

	Found at Roswell

However, the same symbol was found in the Mediterranean and in Glozel, in France, at the time of archaeological discoveries between the two wars! The site of Glozel, close to Vichy, had been updated by a farmer, Emile Fradin. Among the discovered objects, engraved shelves of alphabetical signs… Well before Phénécie, the center of France would have been inhabited by evolved/moved people, using an alphabetical writing. According to Serge Hutin “unknown civilizations”, Éd. Marabout, 1972. See page 180 to 183 “the mystery of Glozel”.

In the Fifties, celebrates it contacted George Adamski accepted in particular the preceding message, being reproduced on a film restored by a saucer in flight in Palomar Gardens, U.S.A, in 1952.

“Venusian” message given in Adamski

Engraved symbols discovered by Marcel Homet

Now, compare with the table hereafter due to the archaeologist and exploring French Marcel Homet, who discovered these symbols during his forwarding in Amazonia of North, among the Brazilian megaliths of Pedra Pinta, engraved there is more than 10.000 years!

Then, certain extraterrestrial… would they be our creators or our cousins?

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'Amazon Stonehenge' found in Brazil

Sun, 14 May 2006 02:23:41 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "Only a society with a complex culture could have built such a monument," archaeologist Mariana Petry Cabral, of the Amapa Institute of Scientific and Technological Research (IEPA), told O Globo newspaper.

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'Amazon Stonehenge' found in Brazil

AFP/SECOM Photo: Part of the group of 127 granite monoliths up to three-meters-high discovered 12 May, 2006...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP) - Archaeologists discovered a pre-colonial astrological observatory possibly 2,000 years old in the Amazon basin near French Guiana, said a report.

"Only a society with a complex culture could have built such a monument," archaeologist Mariana Petry Cabral, of the Amapa Institute of Scientific and Technological Research (IEPA), told O Globo newspaper.

The observatory was built of 127 blocks of granite each three meters (10 feet) high and regularly placed in circles in an open field, she said.

Cabral said the site resembles a temple which could have been used as an observatory, because the blocks are positioned to mark the winter solstice. In December, the path of the sun allows rays to pass through a hole in one of the blocks, possibly to calculate agricultural activity and religious rituals.

Its exact age has been difficult to determine, but based on ceramic fragments found nearby, archaeologists estimate it between 500 and 2,000 years old.

The discovery is in Calcoene, 390 kilometers (240 miles) from Macapa, the capital of Amapa state, near Brazil's border with French Guyana.

Archaeologists said the find holds mysteries similar to Stonehenge, in Salisbury, England, another monument of huge stones, whose purpose is also unclear.

Tags: brazil, archaeology, stonehenge, megaliths, temple