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Submitted by Squonk on Monday, 11 September 2006 Page Views: 15506
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Recently I was fortunate enough to visit the excavations currently taking place around the Stonehenge landscape. At Woodhenge I met up with Pete Glastonbury and watched the excavation in progress.
They had two trenches open. One at the southern edge of the post holes and one across the bank at the Southeast of the site. It was amazing to see just how large the post holes were! The concrete markers on the surface are supposed to show the width of the posts and you tend to forget that the holes to take those posts were much wider in order to allow for packing the posts in place.
They’ve been coming up with some remarkable finds here, including a chunk of bluestone (the type of rock used for the smaller stones at Stonehenge). You can find out more about this on the Eternal Idol blog, including more bluestone finds at the Stonehenge Cursus.
Read the rest in my own SquonkyBlog and the Eternal Idol Blog.
Note: Hamish adds photos to the report from Woodhenge and the Stonehenge Cursus