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Brown patches of grass left by short hosepipe lead to 'lightbulb moment' that may confirm monument was once a perfect circle One of the many mysteries of Stonehenge may have been solved, not because of a scientific breakthrough or painstaking research, but after a maintenance team's hosepipe turned out to be a little short. Archaeologists have long argued over whether the ancient monument was once a perfect circle or if it was always, as it is now, an incomplete ring. When a hosepipe used to keep the grass green in hot spells failed to reach a broken part of the circle, unsightly brown patches began to appear. Custodian Tim Daw was fretting over the blemishes when he realised they matched the spots where stones would probably have stood if the monument had been a complete circle. More at The Guardian-
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Very interesting article which traces the significance Stonehenge has held through the centuries to different generations. “HOW grand! How wonderful! How incomprehensible!” Thus Richard Colt Hoare, a British antiquarian and archeologist, delivered his verdict on Stonehenge in the first volume of his Ancient History of Wiltshire, published in the early 19th century. His reaction was typical of the complex emotions stirred within visitors to this prehistoric monument on the windswept Salisbury Plain over the past 4500 years. With its five great central trilithons (each comprising two massive upright stones, some weighing more than 32,000kg, capped with a horizontal lintel), and scores of smaller bluestones transported to the site from the Preseli Hills of Wales, about 290km to the west, the stone circle is certainly magnificent. But it is also baffling. The article continues here. Incidentally, I also found the BBC documentary the writer refers to in the article!