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New technology leads to discovery of largest prehistoric structure ever found in Britain
https://www.theguardian.com/scie…
Four thousand five hundred years ago, the Neolithic peoples who constructed Stonehenge, a masterpiece of engineering, also dug a series of shafts aligned to form a circle spanning 1.2 miles (2km) in diameter.
The structure appears to have been a boundary guiding people to a sacred area because Durrington Walls, one of Britain’s largest henge monuments, is located precisely at its centre.
- Yass up the magic mushroom people!PhanLo
- Submerged alien spacecraftyuekit
- hard drugskingsteven
- so Britons in 2000 bc could dig really big holes? no way!Gnash
- A series of shafts is not a structure.monospaced
- Seriously bunch of losers back then, dragging rocks around :)yuekit
- And with Brexit in 2020, we're digging ourselves into an even bigger hole... of shit.shapesalad
- The bigger take away being that researchers were surprised the britons could even count back thenGnash
- I didn't know 'til recently that the stones at Stonehenge (etc) had Lego-like dimples and bumps in for securing:Nairn
- https://www.theguard…Nairn
- It’s not even a ‘shaft,’ it’s a pit/holeGnash
- Cmon guys, you can read the article right?yuekit
- "Shafts...each more than 5 metres deep and 10 metres in diameter. Approximately 20 have been found and there may have been more than 30."yuekit
- The interesting part I guess is that it was a big enclosed area used for some sort of ritualyuekit
- They only say Shafts’ because saying ‘we found a bunch of really big holes’ probably made the press release sound pretty lameGnash
- lol @ holes vs. shafts debateyuekit
- It’s only a debate in your head, even the guy writing the grant application knows it :)Gnash
- You know I think you're right Gnash, hopefully we can get the word out to the public about this coverup.yuekit
- Lol @ coverup. Some guys digging in the muck 4K years ago — that may, or may not, have learned to count — is not ‘news’.Gnash
- It’s funny that it’s presented as such, and that people got excited by it. That’s all. No conspiracy. It’s not important enough, lol.Gnash
- Hmmm I was under the impression Stonehenge and the other monuments were an impressive technical achievement for the time.yuekit
- Honestly man I don't have a strong opinion on this topic, but you seem weirdly hostile towards ancient British people...yuekit
- Hostile, lol. And who said anything about Stonehenge? If you think digging holes is laudable, awesome for youGnash
- Any hostility you may detect is directed more at way these type of articles are written, and regurgitated by the mediaGnash
- And then consequently shared as if it’s a big dealGnash
- I mean yeah it seems kind of obvious no? This was surrounding Durrington Walls which is next to Stonehenge, part of the same religious site/ complex.yuekit
- No one knows exactly who built it or how they did it. And holes or shafts positioned in a circle were probably not dug for the hell of it but perhaps remnantsyuekit
- of some larger structure that didn't survive. At least that's what archeologists seem to think, but hey what do they know? :)yuekit