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Stones Forum >> Archaeologists say Stonehenge was once fabled Atlantis castle
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Archaeologists say Stonehenge was once fabled Atlantis castle |
Andy B
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|  Posted 12-04-2008 at 18:05
Sounds about as believable as some of the other recent ones we've had!
http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s5i33389
Archaeologists excavating Stonehenge say they have found empiric proof that the ancient erection was the castle fort of the fabled Isis-worshipping city of Atlantis.
The sarsen stone structure once supported a giant wooden roof and timber walls which perished when Stonehenge became submerged after the eruption of a huge caldera off the west coast of Ireland circa 4,200 BC.
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IronAgeDave
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|  Posted 16-04-2008 at 17:14
Yep clearly fictitious
But there is one small point to make out of it though and that is the fact that when looking at the stone circles we automatically assume that their finished state is near enough how they would have looked like, for example white marble statues weren't as they were they were found to be painted, Stanton Drew geophys showed there were wooden post holes around the site previously before the stone circles, and I myself have wondered due to the structure and form of StoneHenge just how complete it actually is in comparrison.
I think we are all looking forward to the Darvill/Wainright excavation.
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|  Posted 22-04-2008 at 11:31
In the beginning, was Salisbury an oak forest? Was the first circle a formal oak grove of logs from the encircling woods?
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| Posted 22-04-2008 at 21:54
Difficult to say (Neolithic studies not being my strong point) but a quick flick through my EH books of Stonehenge and Avebury throw up some possibilities. One, Avebury was under extensive elm and oak canopies before Neolithic slash and burn, therefore it is not too far fetched to suggest that Stonehenge may have been of a similar environment. Unfortunately pollen analysis is not well recorded as far as I can make out to give a more straight answer.
Secondly a plan of Stonehenge in the book shows outer post holes and I know that more recent geophys has taken place around the site, but I counldn't tell you what the results have been.
Lastly Burl makes an intresting observation both in his stone cricle guide book and book on Avebury, that some of the stones at stonehenge have been worked much in the same fashion as wooden mortice and tennon.
Therefore an initial wooden circle as a precurser is not out of the question. On a minor point it was also noted that many of the stones were proped or braced with wooden beams believed to be of Oak.
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| Posted 23-04-2008 at 07:58
Wooden brace suggests squared ends. If the lengths of standing poles were also trimmed square, possibly they carried lintels..
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