- Artist's concept of how the stones may have looked before being buried.
On September 7, 2015 researchers discovered another set of giant stones near the original Stonehenge in the UK. The archaeologists found them using non-invasive multi-sensor technology (something like X-Ray). The site might have been 15 times the size of Stonehenge and older and is located only 3 km from Stonehenge.
The word henge refers to a particular type of earthwork, typically consisting of a roughly circular or oval-shaped bank with an internal ditch surrounding a central flat area. Henges may have contained (or may still contain) ritual structures such as stone circles, timber circles and coves. Read more by clicking here.
Dr Nick Snashall, National Trust Archaeologist for the Avebury and Stonehenge World Heritage Site, said: “The Stonehenge landscape has been studied by antiquaries and archaeologists for centuries. But the work of the Hidden Landscapes team is revealing previously unsuspected twists in its age-old tale. These latest results have produced tantalising evidence of what lies beneath the ancient earthworks at Durrington Walls. The presence of what appear to be stones, surrounding the site of one of the largest Neolithic settlements in Europe adds a whole new chapter to the Stonehenge story.”
The new stones are mostly buried and according to the data are even larger than the Stonehenge monoliths. Some of them are lying in their sides and seem to have been covered with an earth mound at some time in the past. There's still much we don't know about what went on at Stonehenge and now the other nearby sites as well. This is a Neolithic settlement dating from approximately 4,500 years ago. However, there's no clue as to how long it was used and really for what purposes. We need some good psychics to contact "the other side" and find out the details, perhaps in the Akashic Records, the reports of human history and perhaps that of other planets as well.
