tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38494973728977271122024-02-07T02:48:44.740-08:00Solving the greatest Stone Age mysteryAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05951697954070876728noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3849497372897727112.post-85283220656710811302014-10-03T13:20:00.000-07:002014-10-03T13:20:12.930-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>Giving back to the earth ceremony. Avebury 2002</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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‘THEY’ don’t know what Stonehenge was.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The word ‘they’ in a context such as the above, is used to refer
to almost anyone with a university education, but especially to professors of
archaeology. Laughably, ‘THEY’ is another word for expert!<o:p></o:p></div>
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But a chance meeting in a pub with a young lady, who claims
to be pagan, seems to prove that pagans know more about Stonehenge than the ‘THEY’
do.<o:p></o:p></div>
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She was asked, not by me, about a tattoo on the top of her
arm. “Why would you want a tattoo on your shoulder”, was the remark.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Because I like it” was the reply.<o:p></o:p></div>
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So I asked her “what is it supposed to be”?<o:p></o:p></div>
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“It’s a picture of the moon, she said, because the moon is
female”<o:p></o:p></div>
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But dear reader, you and I know very well that most people today refer
to the moon, and its obvious face, as being ‘The man in the moon’, and have done
for many years past.<o:p></o:p></div>
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So I asked this young lady “do you not believe in the man in
the moon”? Actually I was only teasing, and simply searching her out - because I
knew she was right.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“That’s rubbish, she said, the moon sometimes turns red, and
she has monthlies, the same as I do” - meaning her.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I was impressed by this young ladies knowledge, and wondered
what else she knew.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I asked “What is that in the middle of the tattoo” <o:p></o:p></div>
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“That is the sun, came the reply, and he is male”.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The next question I put to her was pretty obvious, really - “If
the moon is female and the sun is male, what do you think would happen if they
ever came to together”?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Rapidly came a reply, “but they never do come together” she
said.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Now some might call it rationale--or thinking outside of the
box, for the obvious next step would be to find some way of bringing them together
to make the moon pregnant.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Well, so far, she didn’t seem particularly impressed or interested
in what I had to say, but my next statement finally stirred her into action.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“What if I told you that people of the stone age <i>were</i> ambitious enough to believe that they <i>could </i>bring the sun and moon together”?<o:p></o:p></div>
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She rose out of her seat, came over and whispered in my
ear...“we meet in a pub--which will remain nameless--every second Tuesday of
the month--come along, you will enjoy it, and you might learn something.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I can’t wait.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Footnote:</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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The ‘THEY’ were told seven years ago what Stonehenge was,
AND where the proof came from. I have told the ‘THEY’ many times since. I doubt
if even one ‘THEY’ doesn’t know by now that Stonehenge was mankind’s attempt to
build a baby sun. Its time ‘THEY’ owned up to knowing it!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05951697954070876728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3849497372897727112.post-81088197539860681832014-02-11T02:45:00.000-08:002014-02-11T02:45:27.333-08:00Somerset Levels
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My attempts to find the bluestone route produced these
photos taken of the River Brue; I think it was. Photo’s taken in the year 2002.</h3>
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Glastonbury Tor can be seen in this one.</div>
There are lots of rivers and drains covering the Somerset Levels; it's going to take a lot more than a little dredging to put it right!<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Further work to refine the geometry and form of the
stone setting that once surrounded Avebury’s Cove, has proved to be based on
Professor Thom’s egg-shaped circle type 2, seen in 'Megalithic sites in Britain,' by A
Thom1967, page 29. The sides of the pair of triangles, from which the geometry
was generated, measures 24, 32, and 40 megalithic yards—an eight times 3,
4, 5 triangle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Centred on the inner side of the easternmost stone of the Cove that I
have always claimed to be male, this egg was based on the simplest of all
Pythagorean triangles. Professor Thom found no less than 10 of them, so no wonder this
type of egg was emulated throughout the land! This one makes eleven. I now find
its alignment slightly more anticlockwise than previously stated, and perhaps
by as much as 1.5 degrees. Well, no one said resolving it was going to be easy!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Same Cherwell Hill: different moon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I made a mistake with todays Avebury entry - Sorry. The
egg that surrounds Avebury’s Cove is aligned on the equinox. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Different alignment and time, yes, but the equinox is
when the moon slithers down the northern slope of Cherhill when seen from the Cove,
not the minor moon as stated. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Avebury’s egg must surely have been the motivator
that caused the Stonehenger’s to copy and align the Stonehenge Great Cursus on the
equinox too.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05951697954070876728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3849497372897727112.post-80011968900680216672013-12-03T11:13:00.000-08:002013-12-03T11:13:48.367-08:00
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">AVEBURY’S EGG.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Elsewhere on this blog can be found an analytical plan
view of Windmill Hill, showing how two of its axes are aligned on Cherhill Hill
to track the sun as he approaches the winter solstice, and also to observe the
moon as she comes up to her minor standstill.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> Avebury’s Cove is aligned midway between the summer
solstice of the sun and the major standstill of the moon. That we know. What is
little known is that Avebury’s Cove stands inside a setting of stones that take
the shape of an egg. Clearly sticking to the traditions started on Windmill
Hill, the builders also aligned Avebury’s “egg” on Cherhill Hill.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> Recent
geophysical surveys and parchmark evidence have confirmed that the setting of
standing stones here </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">(the northern inner circle)<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> is far from circular, enclosing what can
best be described as an ‘egg’ shape with its long axis aligned north-east-south
west (Ucko et al. 1991, 221 Bewley et al, 1996) in AVEBURY: Gillings &
Pollard.2004.<o:p></o:p></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> I make Avebury’s egg azimuth to be 269-degrees; so if
some of the present day buildings were removed, we would be able to see the
minor moon as she goes to ground sliding down the northern side of Cherhill
Hill.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Avebury’s geometry presented here is an amalgam of
Professor Thom’s survey co-ordinates combined with the stone positions produced
by the Ordinance Survey.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> All measurements are in megalithic yards. (= 0.8297m)
Also, I make the Southern Circle 126 My diameter, not the oft-published 125.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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that stole Stonehenge’s Crown.</b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></div>
Tony Robinson..... All
that anyone has ever found inside it is earth. Me: Not true. It’s true to say
that people did bring soil from far-away places and built a small mound which
became its core, but Silbury is mainly chalk. That is why, when the many
exploratory tunnels recently threatened its collapse, chalk was used to stuff and seal
it--And for good too, if archaeologists have their way. Don't want anyone prying!<o:p></o:p><br />
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Tony Robinson: But
there isn’t any water here, is there? ....Da!<br />
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Me.... you should
have seen it before it was built, Tony, for this mound hides two of the biggest
moat-like ditches that flooded on a regular basis, and both were as large and
as deep as to put Stonehenge’s ditch to utter shame.<o:p></o:p><br />
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The source of
the river Kennet lies near the village of Winterbourne Basset, and is several
miles to the north of Silbury hill. The northern section of the Kennet, or
Winterbourne as some prefer to call it, flooded the plain around Silbury in 2001--
I think it was-- Not the Swallow-Head Spring, because that lies further downstream.
So, for Jim Leary to claim the Swallow Spring as the source of the Kennet is
totally wrong, it merely contributes to it, as does another spring a few
hundred yards further along.</div>
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According to
jimmy boy, Silbury was built as a way of worshiping the Swallow-Head Spring.
What tosh!<o:p></o:p></div>
Me.....That must be
why Silbury was given nine triangular sides!<o:p></o:p><br />
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This is what I
wrote in my book <em>“Stonehengeology: Prehistoric Wiltshire Unravelled” 2012.<o:p></o:p></em></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 99.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black;">Where did Stonehenge’s missing stones go?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 99.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black;">Thanks to Dr William Stukeley, we know how Avebury’s stones were destroyed.
Some were destroyed in the Middle Ages by puritanical Christians’ who regarded
the stones as pagan. Pits were dug alongside and the stones cast in and covered
over. One poor fellow, a barber-surgeon, it is said, stood beneath a stone when
it fell. His body was not recovered until Stone 9 of Avebury’s outer ring was
reset by Alexander Keiller, the Scottish marmalade millionaire who owned
Avebury in 1938. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 99.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black;">The destruction continued into the seventeenth century by residents who
built a church; St James; and a chapel from them. They also built houses and
walls, and farmers used them when constructing their barns. Being harder than
granite saved many of them from being smashed, and that is why several have
survived. Another method of destruction was to topple them into a fiery pit of
hay and straw, and when thoroughly heated, doused with cold water to shock and
fracture, when mallets and sledge-hammers completed the job.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 99.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 99.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black;">However, none of these methods of destruction has ever been found at
Stonehenge - save perhaps for the Slaughter Stone. Indeed, it would seem that
the only people capable of dismantling Stonehenge in the way that it was
dismantled are the people who built it in the first place! But why would they
destroy something as magnificent as Stonehenge unless it was perceived to be a
failure, and had found something better? Silbury Hill-- the mound that grew and
grew.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 99.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 99.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black;">Stonehenge was for a long time regarded by archaeologists as the
‘flagship’ to the many stone circles, possibly 1,000 of them or more that were
built while the fashion lasted. This no longer holds true. The real flagship
that took the mantle from Stonehenge is the massive 130 foot high man-made
geometric mound built near Avebury. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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structure, enough of them to convince me that many of Stonehenge’s stones were
returned from whence they came, and for that very purpose. We also know that
sarsen stones were mixed in with the chalk revetment at the top (meaning a late
date) and throughout the whole of the mound.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 99.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black;">Sarsens were seeded right through Silbury’s primary mound like raisins
in a</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 99.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">cake</b> - </span></i><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 99.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black;">Magnus Magnusson.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 99.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black;">One sarsen stone from the summit even appears to have been knapped into
a rough sub-oval shape before being lightly pecked and ground, as if making a
quernstone, and then, quite deliberately, split by a single blow.</span></i></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 99.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black;"> The Story of Silbury Hill. By Jim Leary and David Field of English
Heritage.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 99.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 99.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black;">I don’t suppose that everyone agreed to the deliberate destruction of
Stonehenge and put up considerable resistance. I can well believe that some
tried rebuilding Stonehenge as fast as it was being destroyed. Is that why
Stone 10 of the sarsen circle is misplaced, and 11 is only half size? And is
that why a beaker man was murdered and placed in the West Kennet long barrow
before it was sealed up for good?<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 99.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black;">And was Stonehenge ever finished? Unless archaeologists excavate the
remainder of its outer circle, or part of it, and in a truthful way, we might never know!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 99.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black;">Professor Atkinson found a piece of Stonehenge bluestone on Silbury’s
summit when excavating there in 1970. Somehow along the way, this piece of Welsh
bluestone, known as ‘spotted dolerite,’ was allowed to become lost. This loss
caused much debate and archaeological scepticism. Many said it wasn’t
bluestone; others said that Atkinson did not find it in a secure context
anyway. Others said it proved the bluestones to have been transported from
South Wales to Wiltshire - formally the Kingdom of Wessex - by glacial action.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 99.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black;">Atkinson’s bluestone has since been found hiding away in the Alexander
Keiller museum at Avebury. A further three pieces were found on Silbury’s
summit by the archaeologist <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jim Leary</b>
during rescue operations to prevent further collapse of Silbury’s many tunnels.
These three pieces were found to be part of the same block as that found by
Atkinson.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Wake Up
Folks, Archaeologists Are Lying.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Woodhenge: a
monument consisting of some 160 tree-trunks that Stone Age people built near
Stonehenge.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Professor
Alexander Thom called Woodhenge an Egg. A GPS survey made in 2008 proved that
egg to point at the Moon. What do you think you would get if that egg were to
hatch out?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 22pt;">300 years before Stonehenge at Avebury.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I first took an interest in what was going on in prehistoric
Wiltshire when surfing the Internet, and was amazed to discover that people of
about 4,400 years ago had built a pyramid-size hill with little more than their
bare hands. One of my colleagues had been to this mini-mountain while on a
day’s outing from London - when he also climbed up it. He also visited the
henge at Avebury one kilometre to the north. I just had to see this mystery
hill and henge, the purpose or purposes of which, no one could seem to solve. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">And so it was on a fine August summers day that I set out with my
dad - who moaned all the way of why anyone should want to visit such old relics
- to see exactly what the mystery was all about.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">So there we were, dad and I, looking up at the largest man-made
mound in Europe, not believing that it could possibly have been built for no
reason whatsoever. I felt very much challenged, to say the least: no bunch of
half-shod barbarians was going to get the better of me. I wasn't brought up to
give in so easily. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">After spending 20 minutes or so viewing Silbury Hill and taking
several photographs of it, we returned to our car and drove the short distance
around the corner to take a look at the henge that I had heard so much about. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I soon became stunned by the enormity of it all: this so-called
“Super-henge” a quarter of a mile across, contains standing stones equal in
size; and some are even larger than those at Stonehenge itself. To say that something
big had been going on here was an understatement. At 450 metres diameter, with
stone monoliths weighing several tonnes, this henge is enormous, and I was absolutely
determined to find out exactly what it was meant to be. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Although dad was normally tee-total, he waited with half of shandy
in the car park of the Red Lion public house while I investigated the henge.
When at last I returned to the pub, I said to dad that I reckoned some over-ambitious
Stone Age people had been trying to catch the sun. Literally that is!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>And so started my quest to try to prove it.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Dad and I next paid a visit to Avebury’s Alexander Keiller museum
to see the exhibits and to purchase some books so I could study these things
later and in the quiet of my own home. From those books I learned that the oval
monument on top of Windmill Hill was the first to be built; and because it
overlooks both Silbury and Avebury; it seemed like a good place for me to
start. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The 350-metre causewayed-enclosure on top of Windmill Hill poses
archaeologists as much of a mystery as does any other Stone Age monument;
because although it appears to have been an encampment of some kind, early men
and women are known to have never lived permanently upon it. It is thought that
Neolithic people occupied this hill during the summer months only, so all sorts
of theories have been advanced for its possible use - none of which seemed to
me to be very convincing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Neolithic causewayed enclosures are among the earliest monuments
of all, their perimeters marked out by several rings of discontinuous ditches
and banks that someone once described as being like a string of badly-made
sausages. Well, Windmill Hill is not a badly-made sausage but could be
considered to be a badly made egg. It is, however, very unfortunate that other
causewayed enclosures are not egg-shaped at all - although some of them are -
but such a variety of individual shapes has hampered the search for a common
denominator that links them all together, and this has allowed for any number
of disagreements about their true purpose. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">What we do know about Windmill Hill is that many things were
placed on the bottom of its two-metre-deep ditches. These “things” ranged from
stones obtained from a quarry near to the town of Bath, and other stones coming
from as far away as Cornwall and the Lake district - as well as small chips of
- surprise, surprise - the famous Stonehenge bluestones having come all the way
from Wales. They might even have brought the honey-coloured Grand Pressigny
flint from France. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Besides this collection of exotic stones, animal and human
body-parts were also found at the bottom of its ditches, together with what
might have been the sacrifice of a child. This child was found on a plinth that
raised its tiny body off the bottom of the ditch, and he or she was buried for
the same purpose or reason as the single burials found at Woodhenge and the
Sanctuary. And as we now know, this menagerie of creature and human remains,
along with exotic stones, flint arrow-heads, axes and broken pottery sherds was
clearly trying to bring this massive prehistoric egg to life. For myself
though, and before learning the meaning of all of this, I wanted to look south
from this enclosure as people of the Neolithic did, to see just what it was
that they saw in the place. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">And so it was that a couple of weeks later, and after purchasing a
second-hand single-lens-reflex-camera, that I could be seen heading back to
Avebury in the middle of the night to see what all the fuss was about. I was so
utterly convinced that I could solve these age-old mysteries. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Never having been to Windmill Hill before, and without knowing
exactly how to get there - and in the middle of the night, to-boot - I duly set
out from home. I knew that I would have to go up a dark country lane leading onto
a country track that would eventually peter out, and at the end of the lane is
where I parked my car. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">It was pitch black when I arrived and I was in the middle of no-where.
I thought perhaps that I should wait for the sky to lighten up a tad before
leaving my car to walk the rest of the way, but that would only defeat the
object. I somehow plucked up enough courage to set off up that very spooky
track; after all, should anyone or anything jump out at me, I could always give
them a hefty whack with my torch. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I had parked my car on what clearly seemed to be someone's
prohibited land, so did not dare flash my torch for any longer than was
necessary to ensure my safe footing. All of a sudden, and by complete surprise,
I saw a flash of light coming from some distance up ahead - did I imagine it -
surely not. Am I heading into danger of some kind? I walked on. There it was
again. This time I was sure the light was coming from another torch. Too late
to turn back now, I had no choice but to see just what it was that I was
walking into.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">As I approached still closer, I could see that several vehicles
had driven further along and to where the track ended, and I was rapidly entering
a “New Age” traveller’s camp who thought me to be a colleague who had come to
join them. Why on earth they were still awake at four o'clock in the morning I
shall never know, but I bade them good morning and asked for directions. They
told me that I did not have much farther to go, and pointed the way. </span></div>
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Windmill Hill and its round-barrow burial mounds, seen behind the incorrectly
named ‘Longstone’ known as Adam that actually should have been called ‘Eve.’
Also note the Christian influence on pagan stones! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Dawn was breaking by the time I arrived at the top, and that gave
me enough time to spend a couple of minutes to look around. I have to say that
it didn’t look much like the photographs that Cambridge University had taken of
it from the air, and the Bronze Age burial mounds, known as ‘round barrows’ came
as a complete surprise; for with my being new to the area, I hadn't expected
them to be there. Even more surprising was a tent pitched, hidden from view
between the barrows by someone who advertised with a banner to have travelled
all the way from somewhere inside Europe to get there. Bavaria, I think; if my
memory serves me correctly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Although the solstice had passed by some weeks ago, I had come to
Windmill Hill to watch the sunrise in the hope that I too might see what Stone
Age people had seen in the place. I stood irreverently on top of the largest
barrow and looked towards the south. I hadn't chosen a very good day - but
suddenly, there she was - the ‘Lady Silhouette.’ <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">So this, I thought, was it: this was the way in which Stone Age
men and women had hoped to attract the sun; a giant image of a woman lying down
formed by the combination of Waden and Silbury Hill together. Obviously - or so
I thought - those early guys and gals had built a female breast to go with what
they considered to be the Waden Hill belly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I was sure that I had cracked the mystery: so sure in fact that I simply
had to start writing a story about it. I didn't know it at the time, but this
beautiful idea was to become just one further theory that I would eventually
come to drop.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I was also looking in the wrong direction. Because the causewayed
enclosure on top of Windmill Hill that I have just described, points at
Cherhill Hill some 4.5 kilometres away.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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before Avebury and Stonehenge: The Causewayed Enclosure on top of Windmill
Hill.</span></b></div>
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give birth to a baby sun or moon.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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outer ring, Ring A, points to the southern end of Cherhill Hill where the sun sets
at winter solstice, whilst Ring B points to Cherhill’s northern horizon,
seemingly to track the suns approach. However, the innermost ring, Ring C, “The
yolk” was designed to complement our real luminaries by aiming to light up the
dark area of northern sky that neither of them ever gets to visit. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Ave5. Ring A</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">, Windmill
Hill’s outer ring is similar to Avebury’s outer ring in as much as it is not
based on any kind of geometry but was simply a collection of large arcs.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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one can claim utter accuracy when all we have to go on is a rough-cut bank and
ditch. Nevertheless, a start does have to be made, as I have here; and as
always I began by making folded tracings to ascertain all three major axes. I
then proceeded to evaluate their underlying geometry working in megalithic
yards as we know early people did when laying out their many and varied
monuments.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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proved the hypothesis of Woodhenge by GPS survey, we can now assume Ring A to
represent a womb, which at 447Megalithic yards is almost as big as Avebury
itself. I favour its azimuth to aim it quite nicely at the setting winter sun
as it disappears beneath the horizon at the southern end of Cherhill Hill.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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official plan of the monument, seen in Ave4, and from which I worked, was found
to need a small correction to make it respect north. That is what the four small
red circles seen in the image were introduced for. They were positioned over
real round barrows seen on aerial photographs from Multimap that correctly
pinpoints them, and the plan was rotated to suit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
metric scale of the original plan was then converted into Professor Alexander
Thom’s megalithic yards before producing the monuments profiles in CAD. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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on an arrow-head. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
make the length of its major axis 264 My.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of the founding triangles of Ring B. Once again, all measurements are in
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The three views that follow were taken around the largest
round-barrow that stands on top and in the middle of the monument. Whilst these
pictures show the enclosures primary alignments, it soon becomes clear to any
visitor looking around a full 360-degree of this landscape that the monument
had a plethora of horizontal horizons to choose from.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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view going deep into South Wales, Cherhill is and always was a superb look-out
point. It was from the top of Cherhill that people would watch their cherished
Welsh Bluestones arrive home. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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seems to me that the enclosure was designed to place - not simply observe - the
sun as it approached the winter solstice on a day to day basis. From the top of
W/Hill the sun could be seen before, during, and after the solstice had passed.
However, we should never forget that the moon would also, and at times,
disappear or appear, from beneath these same horizons.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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This view looks in the exactly the opposite direction and gave a day to day, or
rather, a morning by morning visual as the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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this view looks towards Avebury and the Avebury henge. Here can be seen the
very long and flat horizon of the Marlborough Downs. The Downs were later used
by Avebury’s builders to produce even more alignments, e.g. its Cove and West
Kennet Avenue of stones that after leaving Avebury ran largely parallel to it. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Windmill Hill had a twin called “Robin Hoods Ball” situated near Stonehenge
that almost certainly operated in a similar way. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Ave12.</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> Intimately
bonded to the ground, and looking like some great long slug - the West Kennet
long barrow. Five or six times longer than necessary, this over-the-top
monument was built for something more than simply burying the dead.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">It also has an
equally long twin some two kilometres away, known as the East Kennet long
barrow. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Gold found in the Bush Barrow.</strong></span><div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Few
artefacts have been studied more than the large lozenge of gold found on the
chest of a man interred in a round barrow one kilometre to the south of Stonehenge.
But it cannot be based on a hexagon as Johnson claims in Wikipedia - because
the angles so produced would be different to that of the actual artefact.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> The
lozenge was restored to its domed state in 1985 and the results were published
in Antiquity 62 1988 when Keith Critchlow measured and found its sharp angles
to be within half a degree of 80. T. R. Burrows also measured its sharp angles,
but found each end to be slightly different. He found one side to be 80.25 and
the other to be 80.89, thus producing an average sharp angle of 80.57-degrees. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> However,
whether measuring angles or attempting to produce linear measurements over a
semi-domed form is difficult if not almost impossible to do. Especially if all
we have to go on is a photograph that is by its very nature, essentially flat. The
red lines in the picture above, drawn to exact scale, demonstrates what happens
when the lozenge’s true measurements are placed over a flat image - The outer
rhomboids can be seen to render with an overlap! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Thankfully,
over such a small area of dome, and for what it matters, the central rhombus can
be regarded as virtually flat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Here
then, are the sharp angles that I find to be forming the central rhombus - they
are 79.86 and 80.53, thus giving an average of 80.2 degrees. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">If
the lozenge had been founded on a hexagon as Johnson suggests, its sharp angles
would be 81.79-degrees, and would differ from the actual by at least 1.22-degrees.
So Johnson’s hexagon theory cannot be correct.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Ample
evidence gathered from elsewhere proves that the large lozenge embodied the Sun
and Moon in its design by simulating their astronomical azimuths. These highly
polished mirror-like artefacts of gold were taken into Stonehenge for the
purpose of reflecting sun and moonlight onto the internal faces of the
monument’s stones.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">According
to the recently deceased astronomer Professor John North, the first glint of
the sun in 2,500 BC was close to 41.6-degrees north of east on solstice morning
and 39.2-degrees south of east in winter, therefore totalling 80.8. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">(I presume that John’s figures are taken
from equinoctial east) </i></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">His published azimuths for full orb are similar. These two angles
were added together by the person who designed the lozenge when he or she gave
it its 80.5-degree average angle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Deducting
80.5 from 180 we get 99.5, which is very nearly but slightly smaller than the
angle made by the extreme positions of the moon. Compromises therefore had to
be made. For if the ‘Beaker person’ who made the large lozenge had made both
sharp angles a true 80.8, the resulting complement would have squashed still
further the 100-degree angle made by the major moon. This had the danger of
forcing our night-time luminary out of the equation. Perhaps that is why one of
the sharp ends was made 80.25 and the other 80.89. AND - why one of the angles
in the central rhombus is even less than 80.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The Bush Barrow
Lozenge and the Megalithic Inch.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">This is a view of the innermost rhombus of
scribed lines that measures two megalithic inches, as can be seen by the two
megalithic inch circle imposed on it in this picture. We know early people had
an interest in pairs of things from the several pairs of lines spaced two
megalithic inches apart that were scribed on the chalk wall of Grimes Graves prehistoric
flint mines of Norfolk.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> Note
also that the 2 MI dimension is taken over its sharp angles. This is opposite
to the way in which the Clandon lozenge was treated; that lozenge will be
dealt with later.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>The
published length of the large lozenge is misleading. Instead of being measured
linearly, it was measured over its domed form, which gives a greater figure
than it actually is.</strong> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Despite
Professor John North’s contradiction of the report in Antiquity, the large
lozenge, originally, was not flat but domed by about 8mm.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> The
large lozenge proved difficult to measure prior to 1985 because it had been flattened
by pressure of earth, (chalk blocks, actually) whilst placed on the chest of
the Bush Barrow man for 4,000 years. The lozenge was therefore necessarily restored
to its domed state so it could be properly measured.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> The
actual sizes of the lozenge’s scribed lines above, are based on flatted measurements
that were taken over its ‘dome’ by Kinnes and Longworth et al, and were therefore
‘developed measurements’ that were found by placing flexible paper card over
the lozenge’s curved form, which was then laid flat to give linear dimensions.
None of the other golden artefacts has been measured with such precision as
this, which makes it very difficult for modern scholars to conduct researches
on the rest of the gold artefacts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> Importantly,
across the curvature of the dome is how the incised lines decorating the face
of the lozenge were produced in the first place. And by producing a bar graph of
them - seen above right - makes it very clear that from a 2 megalithic-inch
start, something was expected to grow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span><o:p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><strong>The Bush Barrow ‘Belt
Hook’ of Gold</strong></span></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">With arc sizes difficult
to determine, the ‘Belt-Hook’ seems to be based on a 24-megalithic-inch lozenge
built on four large circles of differing diameters. (24 MI = 0.6 MY = 0.498 Metres.)</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">This close-up of the ‘Belt Hook’ shows where the
lines cross when placing developed arcs onto a flat plane.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> Having
to deal with such large radii meant that the Belt Hook was not the most
accurately made gold item.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> It’s
my belief that this artefact was not a Belt Hook but a depository for fertile
material such as barley seeds. Then, again, perhaps as a container for something
altogether different…<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> NB. One of Avebury’s
Cove stones in the middle of Avebury’s northern circle was restored to the
vertical for reasons of safety and securely cemented in place in 2006. It was
during <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">those operations that Barley seed was found to
have been placed around the base of the stones, some 5,000 years ago. </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></span><br />
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that equates to 1.52 megalithic inches - its slightly oversized base due to
being wrapped around an organic former, such as wood.
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> So,
one-point-five megalithic inches overall on its top face, it has incised
lozenge’s that increase in size from one third of a megalithic inch to a full
megalithic inch.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> Being
given 30, 60, and 120-degree angles, this lozenge represents the minor moon alone.
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">And;
as is demonstrated by the bar-graph alongside it - it also represents growth. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Research
is more difficult when considering the Clandon Barrow lozenge found south of
Dorchester; because - <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The angles are in
any case very difficult to establish in the case of the Clandon Barrow lozenge,
which has been badly crumpled in the course of its long history.</i> Professor
John North.</span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">According
to Pro North, Critchlow measured the blunt angle of the Clandon lozenge and
arrived at a figure of 102.75-degrees. That <span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">would make the sharp </span>77.25-degrees, and is not
what I find it to be! I make the sharp angles 70.42 and 69.13, thus producing
an average of 69.78.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">So,
founding the Clandon Lozenge on a ten-sided figure, as again wrongly suggested
by Johnson, would <span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">make it</span>
72-degrees with angles more than 2-degrees out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Stonehenge, Neolithic
Man and the Cosmos. John North 1996.</span></div>
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Bush Barrow gold I.A.Kinnes, I.H.Longworth, I.M.McIntyre, S.P.Needham &
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thought to have once held Welsh bluestones that became earmarked for a
different purpose and were therefore eventually removed. For now, though, let’s
introduce just two of them - pits 56 and 28.<b> </b>The probable bluestones that
once stood in them helped retain the solstice sun clockwise and clear of the
moon-arc as shown.<b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">Completing the full 56 Aubrey hole-positions
shows Stonehenge as it originally was; and how it remained for the first 500
years of its life. <b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Mike Pitts, current
editor of British Archaeology Magazine wrote: 56 is a number that represents
the moon.</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></i><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">We will find out why, later.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;">That should have been it, Stonehenge completed, </span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">but it clearly wasn’t: for if the simple intention
was to bring the sun and moon together, it was, as a sort of folly, clearly
doomed to failure. So, after 500 static years when little of importance took
place, some massive sarsen stones were collected from the downs near Avebury to
be set up in the very centre of the earthwork. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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stone circle erected in the centre of the earthen bank and ditch. </b>It’s
convenient at this point to imagine the sarsen circle as if it stood alone, to
demonstrate that there would be nothing to stop solstice sunlight passing right
through and out the back!<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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to prevent this, the Grand Trilithon was offset by half-a-megalithic-yard so
that Stone 55 of the trilithon could block the sun’s progress and prevent it
from leaving.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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sunlight from escaping in this way forced it to bounce around Stonehenge’s flattened
and polished internal walls like a modern-day laser. But in order to believe
this to be proven fact, we will need to gather some extra proofs of what others
were doing elsewhere at the time, and even many years before. All these proofs
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Fig SS9: Avebury’s Cove. </span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This is how we know for certain that
people of around 3000BC had used stones to reflect sunlight onto the moon.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>People shown here are identifying the
‘Backstone’ by standing alongside it in this picture, but<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">the reflective surface that faces the solstice and the major standstill
of the moon is on the other side.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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‘normal’ to the ‘Backstone’ proves the solstice sun to fall 5-degrees short of
the Cove that is set in the middle of Avebury’s northern circle of stones, a
circle that Dr William Stukeley called a “Lunar Temple.”<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> <o:p></o:p></b></span></span><br />
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sun and her rising is helpfully marked by the druid who demonstrates where the
moon will appear every 18.6-years, given good weather. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Fig SS11: And this is
how the Cove worked. </span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Many
Years before Stonehenge was built, Avebury folk set the Backstone of the Cove
exactly midway between the solstice and the major standstill in an attempt to
catch the attention of the moon.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Fig SS12: let’s return
to Stonehenge</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">. The sarsen
and bluestone structure built in the middle of the henge earthwork shows
several stones acting as possible impedances to the passage of the summer solstice
sun. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">There is much that can be said about the above image, but to
do so would be to miss the big picture: for it was at about this time, around 2500BC
that Stonehenge was connected to a massive parent henge some 500 metres in
diameter, and known as Durrington Walls, by two Avenues and a river. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">STONEHENGE
SIMPLIFIED.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Solving Stonehenge in the
simplest way possible… Graphically.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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at Stonehenge, this is the maximum area of sky that the moon ever gets to scan,
and does so for several months every 18.6 years. This, the moon’s most
northerly point of rising is called the Major Standstill. The next Major
Standstill will occur in 2006, and if cloud free, should be quite an occasion
for photographers!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Fig SS2: This is the maximum amount of sky</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;"> <b>that the sun ever</b> <b>manages to scan</b> <b>at
Stonehenge.</b> The sun breaks free 50-degrees clockwise from north and scans a
total of 260-degrees on solstice day every year on the 21<sup>st</sup> June.
Everyone who visits Stonehenge on solstice morning to see the sunrise looks out
along this 50-degree angle from north.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Fig SS3: But look what
happens when we place the sun-arc on top of the moon-arc - </span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">the moon commands a small section of sky (about 10-degrees)
that the sun <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">never</i> gets to visit! - Not
ever!<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Fig SS4: Stonehenge</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;"> <b>started its life</b> <b>as a simple circular-ish
bank and ditch.</b> Bank here is shown green, and the ditch is shown white. The
causeway through the bank and ditch formed an entrance passageway that completely
spans and admits the moon-arc right up to the time of the major standstill. So
the first Stonehenge was dedicated to the moon. Let’s say that again: <b>The
first Stonehenge was dedicated to the moon. </b><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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privately funded GPS survey made in 2008.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Fig 2</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">shows Woodhenge as it actually is when correctly oriented to north.</b>
The triangles that its geometry is founded upon are also shown. Some of these
founding triangles are Pythagorean, others are not. Good effect was made by
converting the metric GPS measurements into Professor Thom’s megalithic yards at
the rate of one megalithic yard equalling 0.8297 metres. Woodhenge’s geometry
can be seen to be locked in place by a line that passes between posts one and
two seen in the top right-hand corner of the plot.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Fig 3</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> is rotated
anticlockwise 40-degrees to match the major standstill of the moon. Rotating
Woodhenge in this way makes it very clear that its major axis of symmetry points
at the moon - not the sun, as archaeologists would have us believe.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Two supernumerary posts were placed to guide a shaft of solstice sunlight
down a corridor causing it to illuminate the grave of a child. Professor Thom
threw a spanner in the works by ignoring this corridor proposed by Woodhenge’s original
excavator Mrs Maud Cunnington, and claimed a more northerly solstice aimed on
the very first glint of the sun…. something we now know is wrong. The real corridor
is aligned on half-orb as seen below.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Fig 4: Solstice
morning at Woodhenge.</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> The tape on the left represents the axis of symmetry of Woodhenge’s
outer egg and points to where the moon will rise at major standstill. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Why should Professor Alexander Thom, a brilliant engineer and mathematician,
having surveyed Avebury so accurately, complain that he had measured Woodhenge
with a stretchy tape?<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Why also, when returning home to Dunlop in Scotland did he compensate
for that ‘stretchy tape’ by deducting a variety of percentages from his
measurements? Why, also, when later living and working in Oxford did he not
take the opportunity to return to Woodhenge and check his measurements properly
– a simple three-hour job? His datum post, from which he worked, remains in the
middle of the site to this very day.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Why also did he not realize that the major axis of Woodhenge actually
points at the moon? Again, why did he not seem to realize</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">that Woodhenge gave
him the best chance of proving the megalithic yard – his life-long dream? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05951697954070876728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3849497372897727112.post-21190336691432080292012-12-08T13:48:00.000-08:002012-12-08T13:48:59.829-08:00
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">It’s a waste of time asking archaeologists what
Stonehenge really was because they do not want you to know. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">So how long have they known, and when did they
first find out? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>According to my
reckoning they made that fateful decision sometime around 1938 and are now forced
into further lies to cover up the original travesty. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Well, I cannot say that I wasn’t warned. “<i>They</i>
own the stage, and <i>they</i> say what goes on it - And what does not” as an
educated colleague once said. And that goes for the media too! <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I set out to solve Stonehenge 11 years ago because
I thought it would make me rich and famous… popular even. It did neither -
quite the opposite, in fact. But enough of my griping, let’s get on with the
job of telling you what Stonehenge really was, and where the proofs came
from.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, if you would rather Stonehenge
remain as a mystery untold then this blog is definitely not for you.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Like I said, I started my researches to solve
Stonehenge some 11 years ago, and it took me six years to do it - so it’s a bit
late to use this blog as a day-to-day diary of events that started in the
summer of 2001. Great pity, really, because if I <i>had</i> kept a diary,
especially of its immense cost to me - a private individual - I could be
looking at a fair sum of money in the form of a tax rebate. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I see that English Heritage have wheeled out yet another
updated plan-view of Stonehenge - one that has been produced from modern surveys
and cannot therefore be a true representation of the original because of the
many inaccurate restorations made during the twentieth century. It’s not that I
wish to pick fault with the likes of Professor Atkinson, Col Hawley, William Gowland,
et al, they did their best with limited resources that were available to them -
such as computers, GPS surveys, ground penetrating radar, LIDAR, etc. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Nevertheless, despite the equipment that we possess
today, only two surveys remain that portray Stonehenge as it originally was
before being messed about by 20<sup>th</sup> century restorations - that made
in 1740 by the architect and professional surveyor, John Wood; and also by the
Egyptologist, Flinders Petrie in 1880. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Petrie did nothing to make Wood’s plan more
accurate than it already was, other than adding a few extra details that Wood
overlooked due to failing light on the last day of his survey. For example, by probing
to find the length of the partially buried Altar Stone - something Wood did not
do - Petrie came up with a figure that equals six of Professor Thom’s
megalithic yards. Petrie also correctly positioned bluestone 72 hard-against
trilithon upright stone 60 where it truly belonged. (Wood completely omitted
stone 72 of the bluestone horseshoe in his plan - a very unfortunate oversight!)</span></span><br />
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1:</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;"> John
Wood’s 1740 plan of Stonehenge produced on CAD from John’s own measurements.
All measurements shown are in megalithic yards.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><b><span style="color: #c00000; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">I’m not proud of the
Time Team, it hasn’t worked. And I’m totally dissatisfied with my time at
Bristol University. Archaeology in Britain is a shambles from top to bottom.
The forces of darkness and evil are stalking the land again.</span></b><span style="color: #c00000; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">Professor Mick Aston retired, writing in the British
Archaeology Magazine, March/April 2012.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">Sounds
like sour grapes to me, and I guess there must be some rancid grapes in there
somewhere. Personally, I think the Time Team did, and still does do a fine job.
I sat glued to the telly almost every Sunday afternoon when they first started
and enjoyed every episode.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was most
probably the Time Team that fired my interest in archaeology - especially the
archaeology to do with Stonehenge’s underlying purpose.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">However,
the Stone Age is one area of archaeology that archaeologists continue to lie
about, for they do know exactly what Stonehenge was, and has done for a very
long time. With archaeologists continuing to stubbornly refuse to bow to the
truth, Mick is right about the corruption that is affecting his industry. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><b><span style="color: #c00000; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">A lot of what I’ve said here is very heartfelt,
you know. It could get me into trouble. I’m too honest. I say what I think, not
what I think I ought to say. It’s a great weakness really.</span></b><span style="color: #c00000; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">Mick Aston <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Current Archaeology Magazine, October 2012.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">Professor
Aston ought to regard his honesty as strength, not weakness, and knuckle down
to the task of challenging his colleagues to sort archaeology out - as I
recently suggested he should.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">So
just how long has this cover-up been going on? Best ask them - for only they
know. Perhaps it began when they started to suspect that Stonehenge - that
great monument of which we British are so proud - was probably designed and
built by visiting German tribes.<b> Archaeologists made this discovery just
before the commencement of the Second-World-War when Hitler was at his very
worst behaviour. <o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">Professor
Wainwright is one archaeologist who surely must have suspected that German
tribes had had a hand in the design of Stonehenge; because<b> </b>when<b> </b>referring
many years ago to<b> </b>the causewayed camps of Windmill Hill near Avebury and
Robin Hood’s Ball near Stonehenge… both of which are earlier in date than
either the Avebury henge or Stonehenge itself, he said… </span><b><span style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text2;">both</span></b><b><span style="color: #c00000; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text2;">are
essentially a British phenomenon,</span></b><span style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text2;">
<b>although the causewayed camps can be compared with ditched enclosures in the
Michelsburg culture.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Well, Michelsburg is a
Neolithic hill fort in Germany. </span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">The
people who lived there made the very first beaker-style pottery that later became
widespread when thousands of these beautifully decorated drinking vessels found
their way into just about every Bronze Age burial monument of Europe.
Unfortunately for history, and historians, the Michelsburger’s disappeared to
some unknown place about 500 years before Stonehenge was built; because the Rhine
that once circled the base of their fort changed its course and moved several kilometres
away. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Causewayed enclosures are by
no means the only evidence we have that Stonehenge was built by German tribes. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">Baltic
amber in the form of trinkets and jewellery has been found in many Bronze Age
sites, especially the amber beads that were found at the bottom of the 30-metre-deep
Neolithic Wilsford Shaft near Stonehenge. Although located in a slight dip and therefore
out of sight of Stonehenge itself, this shaft is in-line with the setting of
the <b>minor</b> <b>moon</b> from Stonehenge - and for good reason. We will
learn about this later.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">Furthermore,
Niedermendig lava, a type of stone mined from a quarry near Frankfurt, and absolutely
unique to Germany, has been found buried inside Stonehenge. It has also been
found at a Neolithic settlement-site alongside Avebury’s West Kennet Avenue of
paired stones - and at Avebury’s Sanctuary to which Avebury was physically linked.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;">These finds of Niedermendig
lava prove a common hypothesis for the Stone Age. So whatever it was that was
going on at Stonehenge was also going on at Avebury. We cannot prove one
without considering the other.</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">Then,
in 1956, Professor Alexander Thom discovered something that threatened to bring
the whole house of cards crashing down <b>- Woodhenge was a moon-egg intended
to be fertilised by a shaft of solstice sunlight. <o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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