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Stonehenge Riverside Project 2006 Wiltshire

Submitted by Squonk on Monday, 11 September 2006  Page Views: 15828

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Stonehenge riverside Project 2006 submitted by hamish : The Woodhenge Excavation (Vote or comment on this photo)
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
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Stonehenge Riverside Project 2006
Stonehenge Riverside Project 2006 submitted by hamish : Maybe they are all in the little blue TARDIS by the trees. (5 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

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Stonehenge Riverside Project 2006 submitted by hamish : More sieves and test pits but no people. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Stonehenge Riverside Project 2006 submitted by hamish : Test pits at the top end of the cursus but where are the archaeologists ? (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Stonehenge Riverside Project 2006 submitted by hamish : The smaller dig but no less important. (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

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Stonehenge Riverside Project 2006 submitted by hamish : Archaeologists in discussion as what to do next, a bit over my head. (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

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Stonehenge Riverside Project 2006 submitted by hamish : The large excavation at Durrington Walls. (1 comment)

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Stonehenge Riverside Project 2006 submitted by hamish : Boy trying withy winding an animal pen.

Stonehenge Riverside Project 2006
Stonehenge Riverside Project 2006 submitted by hamish : Phil Harding demonstrating flint knapping.

Stonehenge Riverside Project 2006
Stonehenge Riverside Project 2006 submitted by hamish : The man is a fletcher showing how arrows were made and the woman is showing how everthing was used and only discarded when broken. She is using an animal's rib bone as a scraper.

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Stonehenge Riverside Project 2006 submitted by hamish : Every day items in use at the time.

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Stonehenge Riverside Project 2006 submitted by hamish : The Potter at Durrington Walls.

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Stonehenge Riverside Project 2006 submitted by hamish : Finished pots at Durrington Walls.

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Stonehenge Riverside Project 2006 submitted by hamish : The outdoor kiln at Durrington walls.

Stonehenge Riverside Project 2006
Stonehenge Riverside Project 2006 submitted by hamish : The market street demonstrations at Durrington Walls.

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Stonehenge riverside Project 2006 submitted by hamish : The Woodhenge excavation. (2 comments)

Stonehenge riverside Project 2006
Stonehenge riverside Project 2006 submitted by hamish : Went to the Stonehenge Riverside Project open day on Sunday. The Woodhenge excavation is fascinating, great to see post holes in the raw.Durrington Walls dig is vast with two excavations below Woodhenge and a small one on the other side of the main road.There is a market street with pottery and kiln a fletcher and also woman demonstrating the throw nothing away life of the time. Phil Harding flint... (1 comment)

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Stonehenge Riverside Project - Exhibition at Manc Uni by TimPrevett on Wednesday, 02 February 2011
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Details here: http://www.museum.manchester.ac.uk/whatson/exhibitions/stonehengehengediggers/
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Re: Stonehenge Riverside Project by AngieLake on Wednesday, 22 August 2007
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Check out Dennis Price's website Eternal Idol for news on the 2007 excavations taking place now.
There's a link to a news report in the Salisbury Journal
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"The excavations take place from August 19 to September 14, 10am to 4pm. Entry is free to the public and guided tours will be available throughout.
On the Special Open Days August 25-27 and 8-9 September, there will be demonstrations of prehistoric cookery, archery, flint knapping and pottery by re-enactors."
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Re: Stonehenge Riverside Project by AngieLake on Thursday, 08 February 2007
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If you look up Sheffield University's archaeology dept. website this project has now been updated with the latest news. There is also a link to a great little video, on the National Geographic website, showing Mike Parker-Pearson talking about the finds at Durrington Walls.
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Re: Stonehenge Riverside Project by Anonymous on Monday, 11 September 2006
Thanks Pete - I guess I am just going to miss this!
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Re: Stonehenge Riverside Project by PeteG on Monday, 11 September 2006
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It finishes on the 17th but some of the trenches have already been backfilled.
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Stonehenge Riverside Project by Anonymous on Monday, 11 September 2006
How long is this running for? I am keen to visit, and will be in the area in the coming weeks.
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Dig unearths evidence of Neolithic partying by Andy B on Monday, 11 September 2006
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...and a daft headline from This is Wiltshire.
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