How They Rebuilt Stonehenge

[emtec]

This is one of the dark secrets of history archaeologists don't talk about: The day they had the builders in at Stonehenge to recreate the most famous ancient monument in Britain as they thought it ought to look.

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This picture shows workers on the site in 1901 in a restoration which caused outrage at the time but which is rarely referred to in official guidebooks. For it means that Stonehenge, jewel in the crown of Britain's heritage industry, is not all it seems. Much of what the ancient site's millions of visitors see in fact dates back less than 50 years.

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The above was taken from the URL below.

www.ufos-aliens.co.uk/cosmicstonehenge.htm

[klinker]

I've never given this a second thought as I believed this was common knowledge? My first visit to Stonehenge was in around 73/74 and one of the first things we were told was how the place had been rebuilt to make it safe and bring it back from its state of collapse.

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[eternal_spirit]

I thought there where stones missing??? Didn' the Romans destroy parts of the henge. Would like to see the earliest drawings and pics of the place.

[synergy777]

some think the stones came from eire.

[eternal_spirit]

Early sketch of Stonehenge found



Maev Kennedy
Monday November 27, 2006
The Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/)

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The oldest detailed drawing of Stonehenge, found in a 1440 manuscript, the Scala Mundi



They got the date wrong by some 3,000 years, but the oldest detailed drawing of Stonehenge, apparently based on first hand observation, has turned up in a 15th century manuscript. The little sketch is a bird's eye view of the stones, and shows the great trilithons, the biggest stones in the monument, each made of two pillars capped with a third stone lintel, which stand in a horseshoe in the centre of the circle. Only three are now standing, but the drawing, found in Douai, northern France, suggests that in the 15th century four of the original five survived.

[eternal_spirit]

some think the stones came from eire.


In the Scala Mundi, the Chronicle of the World, Merlin is given credit for building Stonehenge between 480 and 486, when the Latin text says he "not by force, but by art, brought and erected the giant's ring from ((Ireland")). Modern science suggests that the stones went up from 2,500 BC, with the bluestone outer circle somehow transported from west Wales, and the double decker bus-size sarsen stones dragged 30 miles across Salisbury plain.

The drawing, recently identified by the art historian Christian Heck, has never been exhibited, but according to the Art Newspaper it will be seen next year in an exhibition at the Royal Academy in London, marking the 300th anniversary of the Society of Antiquaries.
There are two earlier images of Stonehenge, one in the British Library and one in the Parker Library in Cambridge, but the Douai drawing is unique in attempting to show how the monument was built.
It correctly shows tenon joints piercing the lintel, a timber construction technique, although in fact the real Stonehenge tenons only go partly into the top stone. Stonehenge is rare among prehistoric landscapes, because its sheer bulk meant it was never lost. An Anglo Saxon poet wondered about the origin of the stones and inspired some of the earliest photographs.

[eternal_spirit]

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | NZ unveils Stonehenge replica (http://news.bbc.co.uk/)
A life-size replica of Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain opens in New Zealand with the aim of helping people rediscover astronomy.

[synergy777]

anceint cultures and their intelligence are hidden, redated to support the views of the elite.