questionmark Posted September 1, 2014 #1 Share Posted September 1, 2014 One of the many mysteries of Stonehenge may have been solved, not because of a brilliant scientific breakthrough or thanks to painstaking research, but after a maintenance team's hosepipe turned out to be a little short. Archeologists have long argued over whether the ancient monument was once a perfect circle or if it was always, as it is now, an incomplete ring. When a hosepipe used to keep the grass green in hot spells failed to reach a broken part of the circle, unsightly brown patches began to appear. Custodian Tim Daw was fretting over the blemishes when he realised they matched the spots where stones would probably have stood if the monument was a complete circle. Read more 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHaYap Posted September 1, 2014 #2 Share Posted September 1, 2014 I knew it all along ... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OverSword Posted September 1, 2014 #3 Share Posted September 1, 2014 Of course it was a complete circle. How else to keep spirits in or out when performing rituals? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilly Posted September 1, 2014 #4 Share Posted September 1, 2014 Of course it was a complete circle. How else to keep spirits in or out when performing rituals? This actually makes very good sense...or should I say, would make very good sense to stone age people. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamesjr191 Posted September 1, 2014 #5 Share Posted September 1, 2014 Of course it was a complete circle. someone(s) over time 'borrowed' a few, probably made nice front porches! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atuke Posted September 1, 2014 #6 Share Posted September 1, 2014 (edited) I don't see how this is solved. Anyway every few years this great mystery is supposedly explained. Last time it was a site created for coital rituals. Not solved... Edited September 1, 2014 by bobb73 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DieChecker Posted September 1, 2014 #7 Share Posted September 1, 2014 That is very cool. I hope they are able to build a more accurate image of what it must once have looked like. I see several other brown spots. I wonder if those were stones at one point too? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikenator Posted September 1, 2014 #8 Share Posted September 1, 2014 It sounds like they solved nothing at all its always been obvious it was a full circle the mystery is why it exists. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qxcontinuum Posted September 1, 2014 #9 Share Posted September 1, 2014 Are there any excavations performed in the depth and see if more can come up from it? They might likely unearth a castel of some sort. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DieChecker Posted September 1, 2014 #10 Share Posted September 1, 2014 It sounds like they solved nothing at all its always been obvious it was a full circle the mystery is why it exists. Obvious why? The stones were missing. Perhaps they built it weird for a reason? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikenator Posted September 2, 2014 #11 Share Posted September 2, 2014 wouldn't it be cool if they found another one of these out on another planet in like a photo that a satellite takes an end up being an exact copy of the one here on earth like with the same style of work and stones only this one is like a perfect circle and complete imagine how crazy it would be wondering why another one is on another planet when people already can't figure out why this one is here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubblykiss Posted September 2, 2014 #12 Share Posted September 2, 2014 And just when I thought a ring of rocks could not get any more interesting....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHaYap Posted September 2, 2014 #13 Share Posted September 2, 2014 Well ... at one time or another a few of the druids probably got a bit too much of the spirits and tried to move the circle but forgot the rest the circle ~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Trinity Posted September 2, 2014 #14 Share Posted September 2, 2014 Some times it is the simplest of things that leads to the greatest breakthroughs I guess. I had always assumed that it was always a round structure, this just bears out that assumption, still interesting nonetheless! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabby Kitten Posted September 2, 2014 #15 Share Posted September 2, 2014 I was hoping the revealed secret was something more exciting than that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Codenwarra Posted September 2, 2014 #16 Share Posted September 2, 2014 Who'd a thunk it. Fact is that archeologists at sites like Stonehenge only dig where they are allowed to dig by organisations like English Heritage, quoted in the Guardian article. If they didn't investigate right where these brown spots were they would not have found the ancient holes. Might be a good spot for ground penetrating radar, magnetic and conductivity surveys but someone has to pay the scientist's salaries. No salary, no survey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keithisco Posted September 2, 2014 #17 Share Posted September 2, 2014 Every reconstruction that I have ever seen of Stonehenge has always been of a complete circle. Surely at some point someone would have employed non-invasive archaeology (such as Ground penetrating Radar / sonar) at the likely spots where other dolmens would have stood? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zero Fox FK Posted September 2, 2014 #18 Share Posted September 2, 2014 "It shows us just how much we still have to learn about Stonehenge," So... nothing was actually 'solved' then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shrooma Posted September 2, 2014 #19 Share Posted September 2, 2014 the grass at Stonehenge has only been there for forty-odd years. before then, the inner circle was down to the bare chalk. when you include stone-holes, post-holes, burials, cremations & the like, there are over a thousand holes inside the ditch/bank ring (it's not technically a "henge"), so you'd think there'd be a lot more 'brown patches' really..... . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Codenwarra Posted September 2, 2014 #20 Share Posted September 2, 2014 I would not be in the least surprised if this story is a beat up. More than likely the area has been gone over thoroughly by geophysicists years ago and the results published in some obscure journal and maybe the holes have been excavated, as long ago as the 1920s and refilled. But possibly not. Until we go through all the material published in reliable sources since the early 1800s we will not know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ineffectiveArtist Posted September 2, 2014 #21 Share Posted September 2, 2014 It said solved the mystery. That just made me more curious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter B Posted September 2, 2014 #22 Share Posted September 2, 2014 wouldn't it be cool if they found another one of these out on another planet in like a photo that a satellite takes an end up being an exact copy of the one here on earth like with the same style of work and stones only this one is like a perfect circle and complete imagine how crazy it would be wondering why another one is on another planet when people already can't figure out why this one is here ?? How crazy would it be if we another one of any man-made structure from Earth on another planet - the Parthenon, the Eiffel Tower or Wellington's Beehive... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LucidElement Posted September 2, 2014 #23 Share Posted September 2, 2014 And just when I thought a ring of rocks could not get any more interesting....... lol i read ROCKS to fast, at first glance it didnt look like rocks haha.. to funny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dracona15 Posted September 2, 2014 #24 Share Posted September 2, 2014 I just realized I'm reading about a bunch of rocks...And it actually interests me... What have I become? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sundew Posted September 2, 2014 #25 Share Posted September 2, 2014 When I get brown patches in the lawn its usually only chinch bugs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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