Hosepipe reveals that Stonehenge WAS completely round

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Historians have spent years debating whether Stonehenge was once a complete circle.​

Despite numerous tests and excavations, the mystery remained unsolved for almost 5,000 years.​

But staff at the world's most famous neolithic site believe the question has finally been answered - all because a hosepipe was too short.....​


Stonehenge WAS completely round: 5,000-year-old mystery is solved by groundsman who couldn't water part of the circle- because his hosepipe was too short​


Historians have long debated if the outer ring of the prehistoric stones was at one time a complete circle

But countless archaeologists have failed to find any evidence - despite numerous tests and excavations

However, when stewards went out to water the grounds, the length of the hosepipe meant one area was left dry

This left the ground parched and revealed where stones that have been missing could have been in place

Tim Daw spotted the patches on the ground - now thought to be 'stone holes' - where the grass was parched

By Wills Robinson for MailOnline
1 September 2014
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Historians have spent years debating whether Stonehenge was once a complete circle.​

Despite numerous tests and excavations, the mystery remained unsolved for almost 5,000 years.​

But staff at the neolithic site believe the question has finally been answered - all because a hosepipe was too short. ​

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Completing the picture: English Heritage believe the discovery has finally revealed the location of missing sarsen stones which once completed the Neolithic Stonehenge - here is what they believe it would have looked like

The mystery as to whether Stonehenge was round has been solved while the ground was being watered. A short hosepipe meant they could not reach the area where there is a gap in the outer circle. The ground then became parched and revealed where stones that have been missing for years are believed to have once stood

The hosepipe, which would have been stretched to the prehistoric ring of stones from the top right hand corner, could not reach the bottom left of the circle where there is a gap in the stones. It meant the grass was dry and revealed what are thought to be 'stone holes'

Every summer stewards at the ancient monument in Wiltshire water the site to keep the grass healthy and green and the earth well nourished.​

But this year the hosepipe was not long enough and failed to reach the outer part of the circle - where no stones stand.​

The dried out land, which couldn't be reached, revealed marks of parched grass which were spotted by a volunteer who alerted experts.​

English Heritage believe the discovery has finally revealed the location of missing sarsen stones which once completed the Neolithic circle.​

Susan Greaney, from English Heritage, said: 'It's really significant, and it shows us just how much we still have to learn about Stonehenge.​

'A lot of people assume we've excavated the entire site and everything we're ever going to know about the monument is known. But actually there's quite a lot we still don't know and there's quite a lot that can be discovered just through non-excavation methods.​

'It's great that people who know the site really well and look at it every day were able to spot these parch marks and recognise them for what they were. We maintain the grass with watering when it's very dry in the summer, but our hosepipe doesn't reach to the other side of the stone circle.​

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English Heritage believe the discovery has finally revealed the location of missing sarsen stones which once completed the Neolithic circle

Every summer stewards at the ancient monument water the site in Wiltshire to keep the grass healthy and green and the earth well nourished. The road has now been turned into a footpath



'If we'd had a longer hosepipe we might not have been able to see them.'​

Historians have long wondered whether Stonehenge was an intentionally-incomplete circle, but countless high resolution geophysical surveys and excavations have failed to give the answer.​

Staff only water the site during the driest weeks of summer, but the hosepipe doesn't reach to the south-west quadrant where there is a gap in the circle.​

Worker Tim Daw spotted the patches on the ground - now thought to be 'stone holes' - where the grass was more parched.​

He said: 'I was standing on the public path looking at the grass near the stones and thinking that we needed to find a longer hosepipe to get the parched patches to green up.​

'A sudden light-bulb moment in my head, and I remembered that the marks were where archaeologists had looked without success for signs that there had been stone holes, and that parch marks can signify them.​

'I called my colleague over and he saw them and realised their possible significance as well. Not being archaeologists we called in the professionals to evaluate them.​

'I am still amazed and very pleased that simply really looking at something, that tens of thousands of people had unwittingly seen, can reveal secrets that sophisticated machinery can't.' ​

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Worker Tim Daw spotted the patches on the ground - now thought to be 'stone holes' - where the grass was more parched

Staff only water the site during the driest weeks of summer, but the hosepipe doesn't reach to the south-west quadrant where there is a gap in the circle



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I've plowed up 4 tipi circles that were perfectly round. I didn't need a garden hose to figure that out.
 
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From the land that invented golf comes an unsolvable mystery of how to move something from point 'a' to point 'b' where 'accuracy' is somewhat important. Really, next you will be saying the bag-pipes are not a miniature music box like stonehedge when the winds were blowing according to the ice-age patterns and the 'wind in the wire' tones were the local way of telling when the north wind was coming and that meant hunker down.
 
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From the land that invented golf comes an unsolvable mystery of how to move something from point 'a' to point 'b' where 'accuracy' is somewhat important. Really, next you will be saying the bag-pipes are not a miniature music box like stonehedge when the winds were blowing according to the ice-age patterns and the 'wind in the wire' tones were the local way of telling when the north wind was coming and that meant hunker down.
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Well, if I didn't tamper with the ice cream, causing head space in the mythical maze, then how would the gloop sing when the cats are winning?
 
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Goes to show why men gave up wearing dresses in cold climates, nuts sucked all the way back to his tonsils. Unless he passed out at the party again then who knows but step away it might explode.
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Goes to show why men gave up wearing dresses in cold climates, nuts sucked all the way back to his tonsils. Unless he passed out at the party again then who knows but step away it might explode.
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That's only partially true. You see, if the curly suit drove the sheep downhill like that red-striped tripod, then how would the bathing galaxies thunder the rugby ball?

After all, it's all well and good being the steamy museum, but if the clink can't pop the click then how will Fifi clank the plink?
 
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You don't even know who the rubber boots are for, the sheep or the Shepherd. Thanks for confirming you can't hold a conversation on any level, even about the mutherland. If the nation was a forest of oak then was the forest also 100 ft tall in this area. Get tall enough and you could see all the way to the next tower. Line up the slots and you could cut a straight line through the forest so if you aimed for a distant hill you hit it dead on. (or in this case follow the valley while not following every bend in the terrain.)

Hate to interrupt you with something with some content but really when are you going to solve this mystery or is this how powerful Merlin was, magic by sowing lies and then exposing it with the truth made him the hero, Snowden would be a modern Merlin, he is also a plant but that is a different thread.

The rocky parts were for the fires used to send smoke signals when they were running low of heroin and cocaine, and green tobacco, especially green tobacco. lol That's why whitey was so quick to get addicted to brown stuff.
 
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I was expecting to see a photo of this hose. I am very disappointed and will unlikely be able to sleep now.

also, the whole place would look cooler if they stopped watering the stupid grass and let it look natural.

 
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"If we'd had a longer hosepipe we might not have been able to see them" There is hose and there is pipe. Pipe is a stiff, inflexible, hose and hose is a flexible pipe. We don't have anything called "hosepipe" in this country.


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I doubt a flex hose or pocket hose would work and we know the the old hosebag wearing a crown got around.
 
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Archaeologists now believe that Stonehenge was at the centre of a vast network of religious monuments.

The latest radar scanning technology has allowed experts to unearth a large but hidden complex of shrines, burial mounds and buildings used in gruesome rituals involving the dead.

The hidden empire below Stonehenge: Radar scanners find 17 more sites near ancient stones

Archaeologists believe site was centre of a network of religious monuments
Technology has unearthed a complex of shrines and burial mounds
It includes 17 previously unknown wooden or stone structures
Many are thought to have hosted gruesome rituals involving the dead
Scientists from Birmingham University have spent four years mapping area

By Ben Spencer, Daily Mail Science Reporter
10 September 2014
Daily Mail

Its enigmatic circle of giant stones are always thought to have stood in splendid isolation on the edge of Salisbury Plain.

But archaeologists now believe that Stonehenge was at the centre of a vast network of religious monuments.

The latest radar scanning technology has allowed experts to unearth a large but hidden complex of shrines, burial mounds and buildings used in gruesome rituals involving the dead.


Isolation: Experts previously believed that the ancient monument had been set apart on Salisbury Plain


These magnetic data images show the newly discovered monuments around Stonehenge


Another digital map, covered with red dots, highlights the location of new sites that have been discovered

Looking just below the surface, their extensive finds include evidence of 17 previously unknown wooden or stone structures.

Scientists from Birmingham University spent four years mapping an area of five square miles in minute detail as part of the largest geophysical survey ever undertaken. Unveiling their findings yesterday at the British Science Festival in Birmingham, they described how advanced radar scanners were developed especially for the project to build up a digital map ten feet underground.

Among the discoveries is a 100ft-long wooden building, or long barrow, around two miles from Stonehenge, built in 2400BC. Experts think it was the site of complex rituals, including the removal of flesh and limbs from dead bodies.

The building is thought to have been used for seven generations by a single family before it was buried in chalk and forgotten for thousands of years.


What lies beneath: Archaeologists now believe that Stonehenge was at the centre of a vast network of religious monuments. Among the discoveries is a 100ft-long wooden building, or long barrow

Also unearthed were massive prehistoric pits, some of which appear to form astronomical and solar links with Stonehenge – confirming the belief that it was positioned to reflect the Sun’s movement.

And the Durrington Walls ‘super-henge’ three miles away was revealed to have once been flanked by as many as 60 posts or stones up to ten feet high – suggesting a very similar structure to Stonehenge itself.

Project leader Professor Vincent Gaffney said archaeologists had previously thought most of the site was just ‘green grass’. He added: ‘What we’re seeing is this unconscious elaboration of the Stonehenge landscape.


'Digital map': The technology was able to produce a 3D reconstruction and visualisation of the timber uprights that formed the mortuary building of the long barrow


Experts think it was the site of complex rituals, including the removal of flesh and limbs from dead bodies.

‘You’ve got Stonehenge which is clearly a very large ritual structure which is attracting people from large parts of the country. But around it people are creating their own shrines and temples. We can see the whole landscape is being used in very complex ways.’

The way Stonehenge and its surroundings were laid out was a ‘highly theatrical arrangement,’ he said. As people approached the monument via an ancient procession route, it gradually emerged from the landscape.

The structures cannot be accurately dated until they are excavated – and any decision over digging lies with English Heritage.


A two-part BBC2 series – Operation Stonehenge: What Lies Beneath – starts tomorrow at 8pm.
 
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Archaeologists now believe that Stonehenge was at the centre of a vast network of religious monuments.

The latest radar scanning technology has allowed experts to unearth a large but hidden complex of shrines, burial mounds and buildings used in gruesome rituals involving the dead.[/QUOTE]
They are already wrong, those traits are common they do not belong only to religion. Invaders from the next town or drunken party goers could also be the causes of deaths and mutilation. Perhaps they were cooking and eating the dead people. This is the primitive UK after all and oak doesn't produce fruit.

The Brits are still whacking off heads with swords and there isn't even a party. What if the place was a courthouse also and the killers of women and babies would be the ones whose blood was being split, I'm not going to be shedding any tears over their demise.
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You classify a sword as being different from a drone, I don't. No trial just blow then up. Really how is the sword more barbaric than taking out a whole family because they happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Perhaps the UK should go completely Muslin, they can't fuk it up any worse than the Royals have.
 
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I watched part one of that two part documentary - Operation Stonehenge: What Lies Beneath - on BBC Two last night and it was very interesting, and it gave a great insight into not only Stonehenge but also other Neolithic sites nearby and in other parts of England, using actors and CGI technology to show what life was like in Mesolithic and Neolithic Britain.

Operation Stonehenge: What Lies Beneath



Stonehenge is an icon of prehistoric British culture, an enigma that has seduced archaeologists and tourists for centuries.

Why is it here? What is its significance? And which forces inspired its creators? Now a group of international archaeologists led by the University of Birmingham and the Ludwig Boltzman Institute in Vienna believe that a new state-of-the-art approach is the key to unlocking Stonehenge's secrets. For four years the team have surveyed and mapped every monument, both visible and invisible, across six square miles of the sacred landscape to create the most complete digital picture of Stonehenge and the surrounding area over millennia. Known monuments have yielded more data than ever before, revealing hidden structures within, and new finds are revolutionising the very timeline of Stonehenge.

Operation Stonehenge takes the viewer on a prehistoric journey from 8000BC to 2500BC as the scientists uncover the very origins of Stonehenge, learning why this landscape is sacred, preserved and has been revered by following generations. Evidence of war and conflict, as well as the cultivation of ideas and industry, is explored to reveal complex communities with international trade links as far-reaching as Spain and central Europe.

Using CGI to reveal the monuments hidden beneath Stonehenge and featuring factually sourced dramatic reconstructions, the stories of the buildings and the people that occupied this sacred landscape over four millennia ago are revealed in comprehensive detail.

Watch part one here: BBC iPlayer - Operation Stonehenge: What Lies Beneath - Episode 1

Programme website: BBC Two - Operation Stonehenge: What Lies Beneath
 
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