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Modern SitesSite Name: Maryhill Stonehenge Alternative Name: Sam Hill's Stonehenge Replica
Country: United States Region: The West Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Nearest Town: Goldendale, WA  Nearest Village: Maryhill, WA
Latitude: 45.694330N  Longitude: 120.80608W
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Maryhill Stonehenge war memorial
Maryhill Stonehenge war memorial submitted by stonetramp : Built by Sam Hill as a tribute to the soldiers of Klickitat County who lost their lives, Maryhill's Stonehenge is the first monument in our nation to honor the dead of World War I. The structure is a full-scale replica of England's famous neolithic Stonehenge. A Quaker pacifist, Hill was mistakenly informed that the original Stonehenge had been used as a sacrificial site, and thus constructed the ... (Vote or comment on this photo)
Modern Stone Circle in Klickitat County, Washington. Built as the nation’s first World War I Memorial, Stonehenge lies at what was the original Maryhill town site. Believing the original in Great Britain was used for sacrifices, Hill constructed the replica in honor of the war dead of Klickitat County.

Hill wanted the Memorial to serve as a reminder that “humanity is still being sacrificed to the god of war.” Nearby The Klickitat County Veterans Memorial was erected in 1995 to honor those who have died in the service of their country since World War I. The project was a partnership between Maryhill Museum and the Klickitat County Veterans Association. The site is also the location of Hill’s historic Maryhill town site, the remains of which can still be seen today. Here Hill planned to establish the heart of his Quaker Farming Community. Several buildings that once existed at the site, including the famous Meadowlark Inn, burned in 1958. More at Maryhill Museum's pages. See also an official website about the Stonehenge replica, built as a memorial to the dead of World War I.

Note: The concrete model of Stonehenge at Maryhill continues to assist in acoustic research, 2009 through 2011. See comments.
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Maryhill Stonehenge war memorial
Maryhill Stonehenge war memorial submitted by stonetramp : This one shows the plaques for the WW1 soldiers on the trilithons. There are 13 plaques. (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

Maryhill Stonehenge war memorial
Maryhill Stonehenge war memorial submitted by stonetramp : The list is long, but I couldn't find the USA. sorry (Vote or comment on this photo)

Maryhill Stonehenge war memorial
Maryhill Stonehenge war memorial submitted by stonetramp : Built by Sam Hill as a tribute to the soldiers of Klickitat County who lost their lives, Maryhill's Stonehenge is the first monument in our nation to honor the dead of World War I. The structure is a full-scale replica of England's famous neolithic Stonehenge. A Quaker pacifist, Hill was mistakenly informed that the original Stonehenge had been used as a sacrificial site, and thus constructed the ... (Vote or comment on this photo)

Maryhill Stonehenge
Maryhill Stonehenge submitted by Johnny : Visited by some relatives of mine, all I know about this is that it is a folly in the Sam Hill Museum (?) in Washington State (nearest town Goldendale). Any further inf. would be appreciated!! (6 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

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Sounds of Stonehenge by Andy B on Friday, 08 June 2018
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Sounds of Stonehenge
This site explores the acoustics, sounds and music of Stonehenge.

Who would have thought that one of the most studied archaeological sites in the UK would still have secrets hidden in plain view? However most previous studies of Stonehenge focused on looking at the site, rather than listening to it.

Music technologist and composer Dr Rupert Till started to ponder the likely acoustic effects of Stonehenge after finding a pilot study on the subject. He came up with the theory that the famous ring of stone could have sung like a crystal wine glass with a wet finger rubbing the rim, stimulated in this case by percussion played in time to the echoes of the space.

Thomas Hardy had hinted at this in 1891 in his novel Tess of the D’Urbavilles. Reading carefully between the lines with an acoustician’s ear, one can find him discussing various acoustic effects. Further research turned up an interview with the author in which he states that ‘if a gale of wind is blowing, the strange musical hum emitted by Stonehenge can never be forgotten’.

Mathematical acoustic analysis of Stonehenge’s Archaeological plans was followed by the acoustic analysis of a digital model of Stonehenge using software designed for architects’ use. The results of this analysis exceeded all expectations. The final stage of Stonehenge had acoustic figures that were as good as premier concert halls, and was perfectly suited to loud rhythmic music, much like a rock concert venue.

This work led to a visit to a full size concrete reproduction of Stonehenge in the USA, with acoustics expert Dr. Bruno Fazenda and Dr. Till flying to the Maryhill Monument in Washington State to use it as a model to carry out acoustic field measurements and search for evidence of acoustic features. Here it was possible to make the whole space resonate using a simple percussion rhythm, made by reconstructions of Neolithic instruments, and tuned to the space. Strange acoustic effects appeared in the space as if the stones themselves were singing. Dr. Fazenda has been a key research partner in the project, providing a acoustic and scientific grounding to the project.

The Maryhill trip led to 50,000 internet articles on the research, in turn leading to a History Channel Documentary in the MysteryQuest series, and visits to Stonehenge itself, where echo patterns were found to support the theories.

The project has suggested where people might have stood at Stonehenge, the sort of instruments possibly used, what kind of sounds could have been made and how fast people might have played. It has also allowed tentative steps towards suggesting that the music may have acted to entrain the body, encourage Alpha rhythms in the brain, and help achieve altered states of trance-like consciousness.

Few specifics are known about the music, sound and ritual of prehistoric Britain, and any information that this project can uncover is significant. Stone circles are an enigmatic feature of British prehistory, and the hope is that understanding more about our past is on way of further understanding our present.

This work has led on to Dr. Till leading an AHRC/EPSRC research cluster focused on the acoustics and music of prehistory, a large grant application for further work on other prehistoric sites, collaboration on a TSB scheme to build an outdoor performance venue with similar acoustics and other research opportunities.

https://soundsofstonehenge.wordpress.com/
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Salford scientists reveal the 'sound of Stonehenge' by bat400 on Wednesday, 10 October 2012
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Whatever went on there, it would have impressed the ancient Britons. Even if it was only whispering.

Salford's academics have now recreated the sound of Stonehenge. We are nowhere nearer cracking the mystery of the monument as a result; but who would want to be? Apart from all the mountains of remaindered books of theories, a puzzle solved is never as gripping as a conundrum still under way.

But the four-year project by Dr Bruno Fazenda and colleagues at Huddersfield and Bristol universities, has established how the shouts, speeches, songs or sacrificial screams would have sounded, whatever material they may have contained. The method has been a painstaking piece of 'archaeoacoustics', a relatively new discipline which reveals the sound quality of buildings from the past.

Fazenda says: Stonehenge is very well known, but people are still trying to find out what it was built for and we thought that doing this research would add an element of archaeology that so far hasn't been looked at.

The number of missing bits at the famous stone circle by the A303 in Wiltshire was an obvious problem, and tests there by the team produced only a limited number of weak echoes and no noticeable reverberation. Ancient Britons would not have been terribly overawed by this, if the monument was built to impress. But luckily there is a full-sized replica in the United States.

Built out of concrete and erected at Maryhill, Washington state, as a memorial to US soldiers killed in the First World War, this revealed a wealth of special effects. Fazenda found:
It was possible to make proper acoustic measurements that allow an investigation into striking effects such as echoes, resonances and whispering gallery effects. The data gathered does not unequivocally reveal whether the site was designed with acoustics in mind, like Greek or Roman theatres. It nevertheless shows that the space reacted to acoustic activity in a way that would have been noticeable to the Neolithic man.

The next stage, in the tradition of my virtual supermarket foray, was to create an 'audio 3D rendition' of the recorded sounds, using 64 audio channels and bespoke loudspeakers from Salford university based on wave field synthesis. Fazenda says:

This system give us an accurate and immersive recreation of what Stonehenge would have sounded like. We can not only see ourselves surrounded by the stones using virtual reality, but we can also listen how the stone structure would have enveloped people in a sonic experience. It is as if we can travel back in time and experience the space in a more holistic way.

There's more on the subject on a separate and excellent website called Sonic Wonders which has all manner of acoustic revelations. Here's a clapping experiment on YouTube courtesy of them - background details are here.

Thanks to coldrum for the link. For more, see http://www.guardian.co.uk.
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Stonehenge was 'giant concert venue' by Andy B on Monday, 05 January 2009
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The monument has baffled archaeologists who have argued for decades over the stone circle's 5,000-year history but academic Rupert Till believes he has solved the riddle by suggesting it may have been used for ancient raves.

Mr Till, an expert in acoustics and music technology at Huddersfield University, West Yorks., believes the standing stones had the ideal acoustics to amplify a "repetitive trance rhythm".

The original Stonehenge probably had a "very pleasant, almost concert-like acoustic" that our ancestors slowly perfected over many generations

Because Stonehenge itself is partially collapsed, Dr Till, from York, North Yorks., used a computer model to conduct experiments in sound.

The most exciting discoveries came when he and colleague Dr Bruno Fazenda visited a full-size concrete replica of Stonehenge, with all the original stones intact, which was built as a war memorial by American road builder Sam Hill at Maryhill in Washington state.

lthough the replica has not previously gained any attention from archaeologists studying the original site, it was ideal for Dr Till's work.

He said: "We were able to get some interesting results when we visited the replica by using computer-based acoustic analysis software, a 3D soundfield microphone, a dodecahedronic speaker, and a huge bass speaker from a PA company.

"By comparing results from paper calculations, computer simulations based on digital models, and results from the concrete Stonehenge copy, we were able to come up with some of these theories about the uses of Stonehenge.

"We have also been able to reproduce the sound of someone speaking or clapping in Stonehenge 5,000 years ago.

"The most interesting thing is we managed to get the whole space (at Maryhill) to resonate, almost like a wine glass will ring if you run a finger round it.

"While that was happening a simple drum beat sounded incredibly dramatic. The space had real character; it felt that we had gone somewhere special."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/4108867/Stonehenge-was-giant-concert-venue.html
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    Re: Stonehenge was 'giant concert venue' by AngieLake on Monday, 05 January 2009
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    Rupert Till sounds like a clever enough man to have worked out if the resonance would be the same with sarsen and bluestone as it is with concrete. It's a nice idea, and now I'm trying to remember if the usual drumming - a great instrument to use in the circle - sounded any more magnified at Summer Solstice. (I presume the ancient people would have had drums???)
    Yes - surely they did, as I have the CD from Kilmartin Glen with all the ancient instruments that were found there re-enacted on disk. Whistles, tapping stones, cow horns, drums, etc...
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      Re: Stonehenge was 'giant concert venue' by Anonymous on Tuesday, 17 March 2009
      Dr. Till is indeed clever enough to know that the basic acoustic properties of concrete and stone would be similar (!), indeed that the Maryhill Monument would have rather conservative acoustic results compared to Stonehenge. There is no evidence at all at the time for drums. But there may have been small ceramic drums, or cooking pots. There is some evidence for bone flutes, whistles, clapping, hitting stones together. There may well have been wooden sticks hit together and singing. Clapping is probably the most common musical activity (along with singing) in traditional cultures.

      The winter solstice (January) would have been the most significant date at the original site, not the summer (June). It would be interesting to come to a solstice celebration at Maryhill, to bring my research about the kind of sounds that are likely to have been made in the space and to encourage people to try to play the particular things that might fit in, to try to do a recreation. There is a particular musical tempo which, if played at Maryhill, makes the whole place ring like running your finger around a wine glass to make it ring. It would be interesting to record the solstice celebration as well, although I may have to be at the Stonehenge one in the UK, so perhaps the equinox would be a better date...

      Always open to invites,

      Dr. Rupert Till
      R.Till@hud.ac.uk
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Re: Revealing sounds from the stones by Anonymous on Thursday, 11 December 2008
Stonehenge and huge bass speakers - rock on !! Neolithic sound system alert !!
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Revealing sounds from the stones by Andy B on Thursday, 11 December 2008
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It has guarded its secrets for thousands and thousands of years.

But now a Huddersfield scientist is hoping to discover: What DID people do at Stonehenge?

Dr Rupert Till is using cutting-edge acoustic technology to try and decode the secrets of the stones to expose aspects of Neolithic culture.

He revealed details of the research at a conference held at Bristol University.

Dr Till, an expert in music technology and acoustics at the University of Huddersfield, found that certain sounds would have been more easily produced, giving us an insight into what kind of activities would have taken place.

He carried out practical tests not at the site in Wiltshire, which is heavily-protected to protect the stones, but in the United States.

A full-size concrete replica of Stonehenge, designed as a World War I memorial, was built by American road builder Sam Hill at Maryhill in Washington.

Although the model has not previously gained any attention from archaeologists studying the original site, for Dr Till’s purposes the model was ideal. “We were able to get some interesting results when we visited the replica by using computer-based acoustic analysis software, a 3D soundfield microphone, a dodecahedronic speaker, and a huge bass speaker from a PA company.

More in the Huddersfield Eximiner:
http://www.examiner.co.uk/news/local-west-yorkshire-news/2008/12/11/revealing-sounds-from-the-stones-86081-22451214/
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