Bluestonehenge

Bluehenge (also Bluestonehenge ) is a henge monument in Wiltshire. The plant in near Amesbury was named " Bluehenge " because it was from 27 bluestones ( dolerite ) which should come as some stones in Stonehenge, 1.5 km away from the Preseli Hills in southwest Wales. From the stone circle with a diameter of 10 m, only the holes are present, where once stood the stones. In the holes fragments were found of blue stones.

History of Research

As part of the Stonehenge Riverside Project were discovered under the direction of Michael Parker Pearson of the University of Sheffield, the remains of a stone circle here in the summer of 2009 by experts.

Construction

Unlike Stonehenge, which is oriented to the sun, were found in Bluehenge neither signs of a certain orientation, even for an input. The stones were surrounded by a wall with an outer ditch. The facility is located at the end of "Stonehenge Avenue ", connecting Stonehenge with the River Avon.

Dating

Bank and ditch were dated to about 2400 BC. Arrowheads and pickaxes from deer antlers, the archaeologists found in the holes, suggest that the stone circle could be 500 years older. The age of the antler remains to be determined in more detail by further studies using radiocarbon dating.

Interpretation

The plant is to be built 5000 years ago, around the same time as Stonehenge. There is evidence that the stones were mined in Bluehenge and transported to Stonehenge.

Finds such as pottery, animal bones, food residues and flint tools as evidence of its use as a place of settlement are missing. The holes left by the stones were filled with charcoal, according to Parker Pearson an indication of cremations. Maybe Bluehenge was a station on the way down river from the settlement of Durrington Walls, the " land of the living ", about Woodhenge in the of the stone circles marked " realm of the dead ." Thus the people of the Neolithic burnt their dead in Bluehenge and brought the ashes then to her final resting place at Stonehenge. publication closer research results found in the January / February 2010 issue of the magazine British archeology statt.Ein antler residue that was found on the ramp of one of the quarries, was on from 2469 to 2286 BC dated be. He has been thrown away after the removal of the stone. It is unknown whether the antlers hoe was used to remove the stone, or whether it was something later used for excavating a shallow trench in the top of the circle. these radiocarbon dating, however, has prove that a stone, and probably the whole circle was removed at or prior to that date.