Timothy Darvill, a professor at UK Bournemouth University, is recently famous for his solar-only Stonehenge solar calendar theory. This writer puts that theory to the test!
Dr John Hill, a Stonehenge and Aberdeenshire recumbent stone circles expert, has linked both sites through a mysterious Scotsman architect with strong evidence!
1611. King James I investigated Stonehenge to see The stone which the builders refused.
King James Version, 1611
1616. Doctor William Harvey, Gilbert North, and Inigo Jones find horns of stags and oxen, coals, charcoals, batter-dashers, heads of arrows, pieces of rusted armour, rotten bones, thuribulum (censer) pottery, and a large nail.
Long, William, 1876, Stonehenge and its Barrows. The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, Volume 16
1620. George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, dug a large hole in the ground at the center of Stonehenge looking for buried treasure. (Diary)
1633-52. Inigo Jones conducted the first scientific surveys of Stonehenge.
Jones, I, and Webb, J, 1655, The most notable antiquity of Great Britain vulgarly called Stone-Heng on Salisbury plain. London: J Flesher for D Pakeman and L Chapman
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Researchers are one step closer to solving the mystery of Stonehenge s origins.
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Stonehenge may be a rebuilt Welsh stone circle
Researchers are one step closer to solving the mystery of Stonehenge s origins.J. Ciganovic/Getty Images, FILE
LONDON For thousands of years, Stonehenge has stood on the downlands of what is now southern England. With its origins and purpose shrouded in mystery, the massive prehistoric monument has long captivated the imagination of mankind.
In his 12th century book The History of the Kings of Britain, Welsh cleric Geoffrey of Monmouth wrote that Merlin, the wizard prominently featured in the legend of King Arthur, was enlisted to lead an army to Ireland and transport a ring of gigantic mystical stones, called the Giants Dance, to what is commonly believed to be Salisbury Plain, a chalk plateau in the English county of Wiltshire where Stonehenge i
New discovery reveals clues to Stonehenge s origins
Stonehenge may be a rebuilt Welsh stone circle UP NEXT For thousands of years, Stonehenge has stood on the downlands of what is now southern England. With its origins and purpose shrouded in mystery, the massive prehistoric monument has long captivated the imagination of mankind. In his 12th century book The History of the Kings of Britain, Welsh cleric Geoffrey of Monmouth wrote that Merlin, the wizard prominently featured in the legend of King Arthur, was enlisted to lead an army to Ireland and transport a ring of gigantic mystical stones, called the Giants Dance, to what is commonly believed to be Salisbury Plain, a chalk plateau in the English county of Wiltshire where Stonehenge is located.