Unraveling the Mysteries of Stonehenge
Stonehenge: A big, eerie formation of rocks in a verdant pasture meant to summon otherworldly beings?Or, essentially, a bunch of big headstones?
For a really, really, really old cemetery, according to new research:
- "Dating of cremated remains shows burials took place as early as 3000 B.C., when the first ditches around the monument were being built, researchers said Thursday.
And those burials continued for at least 500 years, when the giant stones that mark the mysterious circle were being erected, they said.
'It's now clear that burials were a major component of Stonehenge in all its main stages,' said Mike Parker Pearson, archaeology professor at the University of Sheffield in England and head of the Stonehenge Riverside Archaeological Project.
In the past many archaeologists had thought that burials at Stonehenge continued for only about a century, the researchers said."
New discoveries of practical uses for Stonehenge are unlikely to stem the tide of druid and pagan revelers to the ancient monument...
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Coal dusters. 21st June 1656
Avebury coal duster, Cursus coal duster, Durrington Walls coal duster, Long Barrow coal duster, Robin Hood’s Ball coal duster, Stonehenge coal duster, Woodhenge coal duster, etc, all being originally simple coal hunting failures. Every one of them were coal exploration sites that did not yield any coal.
Take away all of the dressed up cemetery headstone rocks and what have you got? Nothing more than a bunch of coal exploratory ditches and holes, that is what. Afterwards, these ditches and holes were utilised as grave plots, for tired disappointed coal explorers, and their cold disheartened families.
Sad but true.