SECRETS OF STONEHENGE

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XIX, Issue 6279, 25 July 1921, Page 2

SECRETS OF STONEHENGE

ANCIENT ENGINEERING FEAT

BUILT 3000 YEARS AGO

Is the age-long riddle of Stonehenge nearer solutionl J

Dr. 11. 11. Thomas, of the Geological Sjnrvey, ha* now positively identified the origin ’■of the •’bine stones," as certain parts of the monument arc called, and this is an important addition lo our knowledge. These "blue stones" have been identified with the. formation in the Presoelly .Mountain' in Pembrokeshire. liuw they wciv transported I rum the roek. all that distance, h ;ts yet to be discovered.

Recent work has produced evidence of a fascinating character—namely, that (ho. prqwnt monuments ar c but the remains of .Stonehenge lE, and that tlier© wa.' an older Stonehenge than the one known ki-ditv.

That tin’s inegalithie monument of pro-Stonehenge times existed has been proved by later researches at the ‘'Aubrey holes."

A circle o)' .standing stoiuv. enclosed by a bank and a ditch, wa> the site of (hi.-, older ihuniuncm. from which. in

the Bronze Age, the stones were taken to help to huil'i the newer one. Hw Stonehenge was erected in these early times lias been .suggested by comparison with the mechanism used for the repairs carried out in the Inst I‘j months.

‘’The makers r>| Stonehenge.'* it is pointed out, “were clearly equal to the task oi racing stones of live or six lons to the required heights, and of setting thorn upright with absolute precision/' Astronomer.- have /'ate!) ,Stonehenge at lotlO years heiore Chi'i-t, so that unless llii' latest evidence (.onlliet- with, this date something (ike a civilised community, commanding considerable engineering and meehaiiKia 1 knowledge, must h ( . presumed t<u have existed in Kngland more limn dOltt) yoaiw ago. I

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