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Unless otherwise stated, this image is the copyright of the submitter. Contact them for permission to reproduce it. |  | | Description | The carvings on the second trilithon - said to represent a Mycenenan dagger (left) and a bronze axe head (right). |
| Posted Comments: judy
(2002-12-22) | i would like to know what was the purpose of stone circles | opus
(2004-03-30) | looks more like a roman knife/dagger and a nail to me...(an untrained eye) | fiiz chic
(2004-05-06) | I actually think they look kind of like people | annie
(2004-10-19) | err, how did someone from mycenae get all the way to england? that's an awfully far way to go 4000 years ago. | Feanor
(2011-09-03) | I love these axe- and knife-carvings. Almost as old as the Stones they adorn, there's about fifty of them salted variously around the monument.
Fun Fact: Looking through hundreds of photos from as far back as the 1850's, several of these carvings are visible to the camera - but they weren't "Discovered" until RJC Atkinson saw them in oblique light in 1950.
Many aren't visible as the famous lichens cover them. They're only revealed using radar or X-Ray. Carved over a period of +/- 500 years, they are almost certainly the work of the Wessex People - the ones who raised the Stones originally. |
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