Headlines in today's D.Mail:
"Bolt from the blue! How lightning strike inspired Neolithic builders to construct the iconic Callanish Stones on Outer Hebrides island some 5,000 years ago."
Read all about it here:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7818885/How-lightning-strike-inspired-Neolithic-builders-construct-iconic-Callanish-Stones.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ico=taboola_feed_desktop_news
A geophysical survey around one of the stones has revealed a star-shaped pattern formed by one, or potentially more than one, lightning strikes that shook the earth.
New technology has exposed a pattern covering an area of 20 metres in diameter, which was buried until now beneath peat bogs.
The single stone, within 'site XI', is about 2.8km from the famous Callanish great circle in the island's Loch Roag area.
Geophysical techniques mapped buried features and the new evidence shows that this 1.5-metre-high stone was originally part of another circle with the lightning strike pattern at its centre.
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Professor Vincent Gaffney, one of the archaeologists told The Guardian: 'We're really excited.
'This was completely and utterly unexpected.
'Seeing the evidence for a massive strike, right in the middle of what now seems to be a stone circle, is remarkable.'
He added that a lightning strike could have hit a tree or a rock and may have been 'part of the game' in creating the stone circle.
Dr Richard Bates, a geoscientist at St Andrews University, who is leading the project, said the discovery was highly exciting.
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