Stonehenge path : ‘Missing Piece’ Emerges in Stonehenge Mystery, The ancient people who built Stonehenge chose the site in modern-day Wiltshire because of its solar significance, archaeologists claim.
In what is described as a ‘missing piece in the jigsaw’ in our understanding of England’s greatest prehistoric site, excavations confirm the theory that its ancient processional route was built along an ice-age landform which was naturally on the solstice axis, according to Professor Mike Parker Pearson, a leading expert on Stonehenge.
The monument’s original purpose still remains shrouded in mystery, but this is a dramatic clue, he said.
An unusually dry summer also has revealed the presence of three dry patch marks within the stone circle where massive boulders may have once stood. Dry weather can often reveal archaeological features that have been obscured for centuries.
But those traces can be fleeting, Sebire said.
“They’re quite ephemeral. It rained a few weeks ago, and it disappeared,” Sebire said.
Archaeologists have yet to conduct thorough excavations but have surveyed and photographed the imprints.
The discovery bolsters the notion that Stonehenge was once a full circle; some archaeologists believe that Stonehenge was never completed.
In what is described as a ‘missing piece in the jigsaw’ in our understanding of England’s greatest prehistoric site, excavations confirm the theory that its ancient processional route was built along an ice-age landform which was naturally on the solstice axis, according to Professor Mike Parker Pearson, a leading expert on Stonehenge.
The monument’s original purpose still remains shrouded in mystery, but this is a dramatic clue, he said.
An unusually dry summer also has revealed the presence of three dry patch marks within the stone circle where massive boulders may have once stood. Dry weather can often reveal archaeological features that have been obscured for centuries.
But those traces can be fleeting, Sebire said.
“They’re quite ephemeral. It rained a few weeks ago, and it disappeared,” Sebire said.
Archaeologists have yet to conduct thorough excavations but have surveyed and photographed the imprints.
The discovery bolsters the notion that Stonehenge was once a full circle; some archaeologists believe that Stonehenge was never completed.
