Archive for April, 2008
Merlin has risen from the grave.
11:53 pm
There are a great many intriguing aspects to this most recent excavation at Stonehenge, so I intend to cover them all as time allows. For now, it’s worth looking in detail at what seems to be the main thrust of Prof Wainwright and Darvill’s argument, that Stonehenge was some kind of prehistoric healing shrine and that it functioned as such on account of the bluestones from Wales, which once surrounded healing springs in the Preseli Mountains. On a number of occasions, these two men refer to Geoffrey of Monmouth and to the folklore about healing stones; as I don’t believe anyone’s ever looked into this subject thoroughly, this is as good an opportunity as any to do so.
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Another Stonehenge Face
10:32 pm
I’ve been in a fairly unpleasant limbo for a few weeks, unfortunately, so the first thing I did when I managed to haul myself back into the 21st century was to look through the BBC site for the videos dealing with the most recent Stonehenge dig. To my absolute amazement, the first thing I saw was a face looming out over the drummer’s right shoulder, something you can see in its entirety on this link. I didn’t sit down to scour the video for anomalous faces, but there was no missing it and furthermore, on some frames, the face seems to me to overlap the drummer’s garments.
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Digging Stonehenge…
3:03 amDennis is currently unable to update the blog but of course there is lots going on presently with Stonehenge and people continue to visit this site to see if Dennis will add commentary… I like many of our readers am looking forward to hearing from Dennis on his insights and opinions that the recent digging at Stonehenge will quite literally turn up! We received a feedback post to one of our stories from a Yvette Hakim who works with the Smithsonian Channel, partnering with the BBC and helping with their online coverage of the first dig at Stonehenge in 50 years. I am grateful for her thoughtful posting to us and she has supplied some interesting links that you can use to keep in touch with what’s happening…
They have a landing page here with daily video updates and discoveries and even more timely info:
http://www.smithsonianchannel.com/site/smithsonian/show_stonehenge.do
Also, the Executive Producer of the Channel, David Royle, is live blogging from Stonehenge with video feeds for the next few days.
http://community.smithsonianchannelcommunity.com/droyle
There will definitely be more than archaeologists making new discoveries that we’ll hear about on David’s blog. I hope you take a look and enjoy the new videos!
Thank you Yvette.
For the UK viewers who have not already found it… here is the link to the BBC Timewatch program on the same Stonehenge dig.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/programmes/stonehenge/
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