From the Columbo Telegraph and writer Dr Malcolm Smith:
http://www.colombotelegraph.com/index.php/the-welsh-stonehenge/
Some excerpts taken from above article:
"An enigmatic and well preserved Stone Age burial chamber in Wales may be more closely associated with Stonehenge than anyone previously realised"
"It might not seem to have anything in common with southern England’s famous and much larger prehistoric monument, but recent research suggests that it might have provided part of the inspiration"
"But this established interpretation of a henge later converted to a burial chamber, and adopted as the definitive explanation of what went on at Bryn Celli Ddu, has been turned upside down by recent research carried out by Dr Steve Burrow, Curator of Neolithic Archaeology at The National Museum and Galleries Wales."
"He’s concluded that the evidence points to the whole structure being built all in one go around 3,000BC and that there was no original henge followed later by its “conversion” to a burial chamber. Burrow suggests that the standing stones in a circle could have been a ritual boundary on the outside of the burial chamber."
"But Steve Burrow has made another amazing discovery at Bryn Celli Ddu. He knew that Norman Lockyer, a scientist who researched the site, had argued in 1906 that Bryn Celli Ddu marked the summer solstice (Midsummer Day, the longest in a year). He was ridiculed by Welsh archaeologists at the time but Burrow decided to test out the idea."
“There was no need for me to stay all night – although I know people who say they have – dawn is a pretty well-timetabled event, so I just checked a newspaper and turned up an hour before the sun was due. It’s stunning”, he says. “First there is a sparkle through the trees, then the sun rises up and it’s exhilarating. The rays come into the chamber and light up a quartz-rich stone at the back of the tomb; it’s perfectly lined up. The quartz sparkles”.
"He's found, too, that some of the standing stones outside the chamber (previously thought to be part of the early henge) provided the markers upon which this solstice alignment was built. So the burial chamber served a dual purpose of solstice alignment for Midsummer’s Day and for burial."
"“Recent theories have suggested that the bluestones at Stonehenge (those forming the inner circle inside the massive sarsens) were in place around 2900BC, and that the Stonehenge solstice alignment may have started at a similar date. If this is the case then Bryn Celli Ddu (built around 3000 BC) becomes a contemporary of Stonehenge”, comments Dr Burrow."
“If these theories are correct then the possibility exists that Stonehenge may have begun as a southern English equivalent of tombs like Bryn Celli Ddu; both sites have a solar alignment, both have a cremation tradition, both use large stones (from Wales), both have a circular ditch around them”, he adds."
"It’s interesting to speculate that some Stone Age travellers might have walked south from Anglesey, turned up – eventually – in Wiltshire and showed the English locals what could be done. But that’s more than fanciful of course! Or is it?"
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