New dig at Stonehenge

I went to college up in Denton about a thousand years ago - well over 30 yrs ago. My sister lived in Ft Worth for a while, worked for the Circle T Girl Scout Coucil there.

Well, the video didn't show anything too much, but that was because the dig has just started. Yeah, I know about the various sites around England and other parts of Europe - kind of hard for me to get to since I live in Texas.

I live in Texas too, Ireland and scottland are two of my dream vacations. which i know its in Whales, but close enough if i ever get to Ireland i can make a detour. Cant wait till i can go vacationing. LOL.

P1kef1sh... I am in West Sussex, not as close as you, but for a couple of years, my ex-husband was stationed at Bulford, and I got to visit Salisbury and Stonehenge a few times. It's a lovely area where you live... so historic. I envy you, my friend. Did you see the archaeologist's reports on the recent dig near Woodhenge... there were some amazing things found from that one, but of course, it was more extensive than this, present one. I also like Avebury very much. There's something about the shape of the stones there, don't you think? When I went there, it was in daylight, but I'd love to go at twilight and see if the stones look the same, or even more significant.

My roomie and I went to Avebury when we were there in '03. When I went to Stonehenge with my mom in 95 we also went to Bath. I just love that old stuff!

Small world. My last office was at Bulford! In the Barracks but I wasn't involved with the Army so much as in previous jobs. I did see that documentary, what fascinated me was the fact that they discovered what appears to have been a track/road that went from the river below Woodhenge up to Stonehenge. I always thought that the Sarsen Way had been the approach to Stonehenge but apparently not. Although I bet that's how they transported the stone from Wales. It is not my favourite time in history, but it is remarkable how the whole thing was set up. We certainly don't have the monopoly on ingenuity in the 2st Century.

That would be so cool! I love really old things, the less known about them the better! Needless to say, Stonehenge is right there isn't it!

Of course, if some of its mystery is discovered it will take away some of its mystique.

I don't think so, all they are looking for is a firmer date, they will never know all about it

I'm not as close as P1kef1sh but that would be great, my friend!

I've heard that they do, but since my chances of getting over there anytime soon are slim to none - I guess I'm going to miss it, this year anyway.... If I do get over there I'm going to get in touch with you and pikefish to show me around!

It's strange is it not, that there are similar type burial mounds all over the world..even a bunch of them in Ohio here in the US...hehe...think they're the same peoples...uh as in Atlanteans??

Pretty cool, huh? I wish I could see the show that they are going to show in the fall - no chance of getting it here - If Time Team is a BBC show, maybe BBC in America will pick it up.

Timewatch is a BBC show and they usually repeat their stuff on line at: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer Time Team is a hands on archaeology programme put out by the UK's Channel 4. You can sometimes find their programmes at www.channel4.com and then go to "Watch Again".

Good links. Thanks for posting them - I'll pass them on to some of my friends in America who I'm sure will be interested.

The druids were late comers compared to Stonehenge - which is 4500 yrs old, the druids only about 2500-3000

I had a friend who could walk around the stones when she went there in, I think, the 70's. I wish we could've gone when I was a kid in 1968 when we went to England - no such luck.

Since they didn't have writing, we'll never know what they called themselves. But we do know what else they built, we know something about their funerary rites even if we don't know for sure much else. I've heard it speculated that it was a moon worship site probably built by peoples that realized that agriculture was the way they were going to have to go with the lost of the large prey animals they had relied on as hunter/gatherers.

They sound like they are being very respectful of the stones. They seemed glad to have the druid's blessing on the dig - its not a druid site tho - why a religion that worships the life in the trees would want anything to do with rocks is a mystery to me.

You have heard of Stonehenge - you know, the stone circle in England.