The first point of note is that of the 20 pits located so far almost all of them seem bunched into two distinctive arcs. "As the place where the builders of Stonehenge lived and feasted, Durrington Walls is key to unlocking the story of the wider Stonehenge landscape," archaeologist Dr. Nick Snashall of the National Trust organization, which runs the Stonehenge World Heritage Site, told BBC News. Positioning each shaft would have involved pacing more than 800 metres from the henge outwards.He added: “I can’t emphasise enough the effort that would have gone in to digging such large shafts with tools of stone, wood and bone.”Struck flint and unidentified bone fragments were recovered from the shafts, but archaeologists can only speculate how those features were once used.Gaffney said: “The size of the shafts and circuit surrounding Durrington Walls is currently unique.
Since 2003 the Stonehenge Riverside Project, led by Mike Parker Pearson, has carried out annual excavations at Durrington Walls. The new discovery, by a team of archeologists from several universities, shows a two-kilometre-wide circle of shafts surrounding a settlement at Durrington Walls, which also included a henge, or circular structure, made of timber posts. Our open community is dedicated to digging into the origins of our species on planet earth, and question wherever the discoveries might take us. 1999. "One's immediate reaction to this is disbelief," Pitts said, "yet however hard you try to take it apart it stands up. We may never know for certain how they interpreted this, or why it was important. The first higher harmonic of 7.85 Hz is 15.7 Hz, corresponding with the resonant frequency range calculated in connection with Durrington Shafts in their role as sound resonators.Supporting the idea that the ring of pits at Durrington might have functioned as sound resonators is work carried out in 1999 by chartered engineer Rodney Hale in the Stonehenge landscape.
"Tucker Reals is the CBSNews.com foreign editor, based at the CBS News London bureau.Be in the know. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.Britain is dotted with stone circles build thousands of years ago for reasons that remain mysterious.Your feedback will go directly to Science X editors.Tech Xplore covers the latest engineering, electronics and technology advancesGet weekly and/or daily updates delivered to your inbox. A Massive, Late Neolithic Pit Structure associated with Durrington Walls Henge #DurringtonPits. The archaeologists found a series of Neolithic shafts that date from around 2500 BC and stretch for 2km around the Durrington Walls and Woodhenge monuments. Those on the southern side are on a much wider arc than those on the northern side.
Even though the Schumann resonance is a radio frequency (RF) and not a sound frequency, the fact that its frequency corresponds with that of the 144 feet wavelength distance found in connection with Stonehenge, Woodhenge and Durrington Walls is curious indeed.Michell’s words now take on a new meaning in the knowledge that Woodhenge, being just a few hundred meters south of Durrington Walls, falls within the great circle defined by Durrington Shafts.
Terrain, of course, could have been a factor in their placement, although what if the pits were never meant to be a perfect circle. We seek to retell the story of our beginnings.The generation of sound vibration at such low frequencies would very easily have been carried on a sub-audible level through the earth in the same manner as seismic waves. Series of massive pits appears to have encircled the known site of Durrington Walls, just a couple miles from Stonehenge, between 4,000 and 5,000 years ago. It identified the Neolithic village and avenue to the river. New prehistoric shafts have been discovered around Durrington Walls henge Coring suggests the features are Neolithic, excavated over 4,500 years ago It is thought the shafts served as a boundary to a sacred area or precinct. The pits are thought to have been dug more than 4,500 years ago to mark a boundary around Durrington Walls.
that is one of Britain's most popular tourist attractions. *Thanks to Rodney Hale, Catherine Hale, Bob Trubshaw, Maria Wheatley, Graham Phillips, Debbie Benstead and Richard Ward.So what then can we determine about Durrington Shafts? "The degree of similarity across the 20 features (pits) identified suggests that they could have formed part of a circuit of large pits around Durrington Walls," the paper says.Archaeologists have discovered a massive series of Neolithic-era pits very close to the Stonehenge site in southern England. A person in their vicinity with strong winds blowing may have experienced deep subliminal feelings from the resulting low vibrational sound. But with the Durrington Shafts, it’s not the passing of time, but the bounding by a circle of shafts which has cosmological significance.”As the area around Stonehenge is among the world’s most-studied archaeological landscapes, the discovery is all the more unexpected. Having filled naturally over millennia, the shafts – although enormous – had been dismissed as natural sinkholes and dew ponds.