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At the beginning of the summer of 2006 I knew very well how much of Stonehenge as the next man – a collection of large, old stones, or megaliths, in a circle on the chalk hills of Salisbury Plain in the set’s English county of Wiltshire. . .

adults in England, I’d even had the opportunity to the area like a school boy to visit, although I must say I was more interested in up and down the slopes of the nearby Avebury run than listening to the roar at Masters about how the site was built and by whom. Little was almost forty years later, England show changes in the World Cup more exciting than the escapades of their Neolithic ancestors. So when my ten-year-old daughter asked why someone want to use such large stones to build Stonehenge in the first place My response was reasonable glib, but it got me thinking. In fact, resulted in a very bizarre experiment of two years of intensive research, culminating in a book, follow the observatory Stonehenge.

You may be wondering why anyone is still interested in the site, after all, so much was already about to be written in the past 100 years, there is nothing more to discover, it can?

If it was just that easy, because, try as they might, the pigeon-hole-site, Stonehenge is a very difficult problem for archaeologists.

It is similar to ancient earthworks, the use of a bank and ditch, but the arrangement is unique, as almost all other ancient earthen wall has an inner and outer ditch bank. For some reason, this is reversed at Stonehenge, where an outer bank encloses the remains of a once mighty inner bank.

It is also similar to ancient megalithic structures in the use of stone, but the quality of processing is unique. Lintels were placed on top of two pillars secured with knob and ball joints, that they are better acquainted prefabricated concrete components are today. Perhaps the only other ancient site demonstrates this method of dry stone Connect is the Pyramids of Giza, where it was used to ensure vertices.

Stonehenge sits in a large megalithic landscape populated by causewayed housing, chambered tombs and passage graves, and although individual stones of the size and the views are not uncommon at Stonehenge to the New Stone Age, thirty columns, each weighing around 30 tons, is precisely placed on sloping ground to a level and perfect ring of falls over 30 meters (100ft) in diameter exceptional support, and not just for Europe.

Given the size of the surrounding moat and number of stones, there is surprisingly little evidence that he built one with the tools of the day – antlers and bones. For example, there are only two radiocarbon samples available to a date for the construction of seventy-five stones from which the Sarsen Circle and trilithons place, and they differ by almost 2,000 years.

It is so well designed that some observers believe it worked as solar and lunar calendar to a time when the emerging agricultural societies in Neolithic Britain itself was the importance of the sun and the moon in predicting the seasons, a view that need with the British archaeologist who think it in any way “symbolic” for a culture with dead spirits – even if nothing more knowledge about the skills of British Neolithic man and beat (heaven forbid) a foreign influence contrasts. To this end, the “authorities” seem willing to keep almost everything Stonehenge to do a truly national monument. Â

Almost any attempt to use new techniques have been thought to prepare the transport and erect the stones is done so in terms of strengthening the Neolithic theory.

has helped to define a progressive sequence of construction spanning 1500 years, where construction of the biggest rock groups trilithons, in the middle of the monument, the builder of the Sarsen Circle require during their positioning and final erection (it’s worth negotiate would be pointing out how the rest of the construction techniques is always carried out in isolation and with neatly squared-off blocks of precast concrete). A re-evaluation by the ancient monuments Laboratory (AML) of the radiocarbon dated material again during the 20th Century excavations at the site was clearly to strengthen these phases to be established.

It is against this background that I tried to document a paper to publish my own theory about six months in my research. In retrospect, to be honest, it was a hastily prepared conclusion, I felt ready to rubber-stamp as my own, and deserves no more attention than it achieved. Undeterred by the absence of official or media response, which I studied the subject of Stonehenge in books, videos continue, and the Internet. Most authors give some more information will be acquired from published as the RJC Atkinson’s book, Stonehenge, in 1956, the default in the techniques for moving and erecting stones, which he describes. Gerald Hawkins, author of the much-maligned Stonehenge Decoded, in which he “proved” the builders of the situation, astronomical calculations far ahead of their time, felt obliged to Atkinson’s sequence of construction and subsequent archaeological dating of such a stick. I can also fallen into this trap, he had not been for Google SketchUp. This had powerful unbelievable and yet easy to use software allows unparalleled access to the site of 3D models created I using data from a variety of sources and, in combination with Cybersky astronomical software, I was the theory test orientations, and further weight to my own theory. However, it was against the use of the models, the pictures for the book that I realized the result of the method adopted in Atkinson, to build the Sarsen pillars – the orientation of the flat inner side meant that they could, collected from outside the circle have been. There was only one were cast by many inconsistencies that cast doubt on the established sequence of construction and dated, one doubts that more was confirmed after a thorough examination of the AML study.

By the end of 2007, I was pretty sure my theory provided a credible alternative to other, including the “archillogical ‘interpretation of Stonehenge as a site of Neolithic ritual worship. Hawkins was right about the surrounding rocks have been, but they could only after severe erosion of the banks that would otherwise be made have put them useless. Other theories are based on a standardization of the stone and symmetry are lacking in all but the lintel Sarsen’s ring. yet completely ignore the features for which they have no use or explanation . Stonehenge is a order to precise, simple, and yet a temple too coarse in the choice of material to be an astronomical observatory – that is, until you fill it with water, at which point the central location of the stones a solid base from where to be, has observed, a reflection of the sun, moon and stars could. There is no other reason for paying such attention to the shape and finish of a fall ring out of sight of observers were on the ground, and especially if this so little attention to the pillars, they have been paid.

contrast to the many stylized models of Stonehenge, the columns are not of uniform shape and size (and never were), neither the gaps between them, but much is in their placement in the alignment or obscured the view of various events. The pillars are purely structural and suitable for the purpose. Another reason to believe that the lintels provided a solid basis to move on which is the technique used to fix them. It’s not as if a 7 tons of rock slide probably two 30-ton cornerstone set 1m (3ft) in the ground, but the builders is considered it necessary to use three different methods to connect them all together. The surrounding hills are still a plentiful supply of water in the form of an unconfined aquifer and there is every reason to believe that the level of the groundwater level is even higher in the past. Functions within and around the site, offer examples of how the water could be accessed and maintained within the limits of the Henge.

the same time (late 2007) I was struggling with the geometry of the screen. It was to prove impossible to give a geometric method to compensate for the east orientation of the site around 50Â ° from the north without resorting to trig tables, and I wanted to show how the stars could be recorded mechanically. The orientation of the site on the longest day of the year, the summer solstice, gives weight to the idea that it was deliberately aimed at the event, but the association is weak for several reasons, none of which at least being the tendency for the event after left and right to tilt the earth is changing. After a dialogue with a professor of astronomy, I have decided to consider the problem from a completely different angle, literally, at which point everything fell into it. Not only the geometry problem solved, there was an explanation for the positions of trilithons within the circle Sarsen in providing a permanent record of the northern and southern shutdowns of the moon.

For the first time each function within the Henge in a single, functional unit could be considered. But in closing the door on a secret I had opened the door to another, even larger scale – for my theory is correct, the history of the earth has to be wrong.

There are of course much more in my book published, the observatory Stonehenge. It includes a complete cross-examination of the AML study, an explanation of the astronomical problems of the builders, alternative theories face and a full description of the functions. But paper but never really do justice to the site. Previous authors have on lengthy descriptions of the stones with Ordnance Survey style maps for reference, or wire-frame diagrams, which the site would have looked back. In one experiment, the reader with so much access to the site as possible without the need to be there in person (which would need a time machine to see how it was originally), I have the 3D models available online under: made offer

http://www. stonehengeobservatory. com

The website is designed as a supplement to the book, so do not expect too much in the way of the comment. The models are very interactive with the option to hide or show, Features, pan and zoom manually or with the help of a site plan. An eBook version of Stonehenge, the Observatory is for those of you can wait, not for the printer. There is also an animated reconstruction of the destruction of the place where it is possible to see the extent of damage to individual stones. The destruction of Stonehenge is as much a mystery as how it was built. There can be no doubt that humans have figured largely in removing the fallen stones, but you must look only to the 20 Century restoration of the site to see how the sheer size of these foundations and left standing is a major problem for the scavenger hunt, as ever for the client. Large cranes, gantries and cradles of vital importance to raise megaliths are still buried after so many centuries. It is also clear that erosion exposed the website a foundation sufficient for the wind took its toll, but not to such an extent that the entire southwestern area would be demolished, and although the extent of the damage would suggest a tidal wave or earthquake, the pattern the destruction of something else says. To this end, I think is possible, which may in the Stonehenge Observatory invite only mockery of the academic community in which I am not one, but the true age of Stonehenge and the events leading to its destruction, together with what is just as describes Red Herring lead of truly astronomical proportions, are in trials of members of the community, the very confirmed.