Did anyone see Prof. Mike Parker Pearson and a colleague (sorry, forgotten his name, but a Roman expert on Time Team usually), talking about the new settlement they've found at Durrington Walls on 'Richard and Judy' this afternoon - Tuesday, 6th February, Channel 4, 5.00 - 6.00pm?
Luckily, I switched on early in the interview and managed to video some of the reconstruction images, which were very interesting. It showed how Stonehenge and 'Woodhenge' would have looked in their setting. (I wasn't sure if they meant the actual 'Woodhenge' or the wooden post construction whose post-holes were uncovered at Durrington Walls.) Stonehenge looked a bit closer than it actually is. Also there was an image of how the huts would have looked - a rectangular building with wattle and daub walls (restored seasonally), surrounded by a circular wooden fence.
The route between the settlement and Stonehenge was discussed, including the movement along The Avenue. Mike PP also mentioned the vertical cliff above the river at the Durrington Walls end, saying they dropped off it into the river.
(I wonder if it was possible that the Avon was higher in those days, and nearer to the top of the 'cliff', thus making it easier to embark onto a craft of some sort??)
When supposed to be showing the new 'avenue' at Durrington, and presumably the Stonehenge Avenue, they discovered a pic of the Cursus came up instead, but fortunately Judy realised this and said, 'No, that's wrong, it's the Cursus.' Well done, Judy!
Early in the interview they were handling a bone with an arrow hole in it. Mike PP related how the domestic animals would have been shot with arrows for sport, before being cooked and eaten in the feasts. (See Dennis Price's article on Eternal Idol for his opinions on this.)
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