Today, Stonehenge is one of the most famous ancient monuments on earth. The colossal stone circle of one hundred standing stones took an estimated 1500 years to erect. While experts have studied the site for centuries, exact answers as to what happened at Stonehenge are mostly unknown
The mystery of Stonehenge is etched into the British landscape. Who, how, and why it was constructed remains a critical part of the human origin puzzle.
Let’s explore the secrets of the Stonehenge stone circle.
What is Stonehenge?
Located in the South of England, Stonehenge is one of the most iconic megalithic structures on the planet. The sheer size of the standing stones complex attracts millions of visitors each year to marvel at its mystery.
The monument is made of two different stone types. Each comes from different places. The larger sarsen stones in the outer ring — which stand up to 30 feet (9 meters) tall and weigh an average of 25 tons (22.6 metric tons). The inner bluestones are much smaller.
Here’s the full transcript of this episode:
Steven: Welcome to The Human Origin Project, where we explore the Science of You. To keep up to date, go to our iTunes channel and subscribe and please leave a review if you enjoyed today’s show. Hello, and welcome to the show. Today we are going to be talking about one of the most famous archaeological sites on the planet.
That’s Stonehenge. But despite millions of people visiting and countless research papers into what Stonehenge is, what it was used for, where it came from there are still many question marks as to who really built Stonehenge and why would they go to so much trouble as to align such enormous stone pillars to astronomical features?
We explore these topics amongst others in Stonehenge, and really that Stonehenge was a part of a larger stone building culture that existed in the United Kingdom that we can’t really explain.
I hope you enjoy today’s show and if you have any questions or research that you think is important to this topic please write to us in the show notes, on social media and on our website. And please leave a review if you enjoy today’s show. Hello, welcome to this week’s show. Stefan, how have you been, man?
Stefan: [0:01:22] I’ve been good. I’ve been good. It’s getting a bit colder over here in Australia, which is just kind of nice. It’s been a very hot summer so I’m enjoying not feeling the heat anymore.
Steven: [0:01:33] Today was pretty hot. It was quite humid. I know talking about the weather is pretty silly at the moment.
Stefan: [0:01:42] Yeah, I have great heritage so I feel the heat a lot so days like today really took me down.
Steven: [0:01:48].
Stefan: [0:01:50] Oh, yeah, maybe.
Steven: [0:01:51] Maybe it’s the other heritage in your origin, we’ll find it. One thing I was going to say though about the weather is that I think it’s been quite warm and I think it’s a little bit due to the seasons shifting which is something that we are kind of writing about, interestingly, with the calendar system and the show coming up so I thought that was a nice little segue.
But today we are going to be talking about Stonehenge. It kind of goes back to one of our first experiences in the path to working on The Human Origin Project and that was visiting Stonehenge. For those that haven’t visited Stonehenge, Stefan and I were talking a lot about historical research and archaeology and anthropological concepts. One day we were in London together, which is quite rare. You were living there, weren’t you?
Stefan: [0:02:50] Yeah. It was a few years ago now but I remember it. It started off with I think you sent me a few YouTube videos, the ones you kind of watch really late at night when you’ve got nothing to do and it pops up an archaeological mystery.
You click on that and you sort of, I don’t know, I just remember buying a lot of books and getting really interested in that topic. And then when you came to London we decided it was just down the road, we should go check out Stonehenge and see what all the fuss was about.
Steven: [0:03:20] Hired a car, got a speeding ticket.
Stefan: [0:03:23] Oh, really?
Steven: [0:03:27] Yes. I can’t remember the type of car but anyway we drove to a lot of different sites. But the interesting thing about Stonehenge is it sort of solitary plane it’s about an hour and a half southwest of London.
Stefan: [0:03:41] Yeah. It depends how fast you are driving, I guess. I felt before we went there that Stonehenge was its own isolated monument. But you drive through the countryside and it’s a whole range.
There are hundreds of different sites, small and large, different stone circles, dolmens which are kind of like small versions of Stonehenge on a very simple scale.
There’s a place called Silbury Hill which is in the same region which is just this huge man-made mound that we climbed up as well. And then there are just all these, it’s like a whole landscape of these ancient sites that all seem to be interconnected in some way.
Steven: [0:04:31] Yeah. Avebury is nearby which is a very famous stone.
Stefan: [0:04:37] Yeah, the largest stone circle anywhere in the world. I think there’s a village built inside it now. There are a bar and a post office and some houses and there are only a few stones left standing. We are going to cover this in a future article. What it once looked like is breathtaking. It covers kilometers of space and it’s just enormous.
Steven: [0:05:01] It could have been part of the bigger complex that was big. Avebury is enormous when you think of the size. Stones are kind of massive behind the shape. There are different styles of Stonehenge. They were very big clump stones set up in the line. And what was that? There was like that long, the one we went to just before Avebury, what was that is called?
Stefan: [0:05:20] I think it was High Bennett Longbarrow or High Kennet Longbarrow. Sorry to all the English listeners out there if I’ve just murdered the pronunciation. But it sits right next to Silbury Hill and it’s another kind of anomalous site that seems to be dated to the same period or built by the same ancient inhabitants, who no one really knows much about.
There’s folklore regarding these sites. I think Stonehenge there are myths about it being built by giants. I think one of the old names for it was the Giants Dance. And also those you know about King Arthur and the stories of Merlin.
There’s an old myth where Merlin was involved in building Stonehenge using his magic to lift the stones into place. There are all these fragmentary sorts of stories and no one really knows who built it or why. I think people are only just starting to scratch the surface now.
Steven: [0:06:21] Yeah, that was really when we were first discussing Stonehenge, looking into the history. My mother is Welsh so I have Welsh heritage and it just baffled me that in the United Kingdom where it’s one of our founding ancestry lines that we don’t know where they came from or who were the people that were based in this land before.
It’s very strange, isn’t it? That kind of talks to Druids and we are going to be covering this a lot later and there are a lot of people that research in this area. But today we are going to mainly go into the side of Stonehenge but that’s just a little bit of a primer trip for it. For those that haven’t been to Stonehenge and the Salisbury plane a perspective is you drive along these long grassy fields.
Stefan: [0:07:16] It’s very quintessential English landscape. There are rolling hills, there’s Golden Sun, lots of sheep, lots of little villages with thatched roofs and smoke coming out of the chimneys which are very different scenery to what we are used to over here in Australia but you are just driving along.
The highway is literally 50 meters from the stones and you are driving along. And all of a sudden you come to traffic jam and 20 minutes later, you are rolling, rolling, rolling and all of a sudden, these stones just appear out of nowhere. And they are huge. The people that are walking around them that you can say from the car are just these tiny little dots. It blows your mind seeing them.
Steven: [0:08:04] It really does. The size of the stones really blew my mind. They are very rough kind of shaped stones. They are not so fine like what you see in Egypt, which is a very precision cut. It’s not like that. It’s more of rough, rounded shapes but they’re just enormous.
Then you think of some size and there are all lifted up. They are also unique in the style of the sites in Salisbury plane because you have the Salisbury Hill which is what’s said it used to be like a white brick pyramid-like building which is really unexplained, isn’t it?
Stefan: [0:08:47] Yeah, I think that’s because it’s made of I think it’s chalk. There’s a lot of chalk in that part of England. So there’s something to do with the chalk and the colour white. There are these tales of it glowing and this sort of thing. But Stonehenge is really unique in the area because there are lots of stone circles in that area, but also all across the UK.
Across the world, there’s thousands and thousands of stone circles. We think of Stonehenge is the only stone circle but yeah, the more that we’ve been learning, we’ve kind of realized that they’re everywhere, almost on every continent. But Stonehenge is different in that it’s got these huge stones that make up the circle.
But it’s a bit more sophisticated than that. There are these lintels, they are known as lintel stones that sit at the top. They sort of cap the standing stones on the outside. There are only a few left today, but if you look at all recreate all the images of what it would have looked like it was this perfect kind of enclosed circle with these three huge standing telethon type structures in the middle of it.
Steven: [0:10:00] How were they shaped in the middle?
Stefan: [0:10:04] There’s like three, I think there are just three freestanding kinds of stone blocks and then there are a few other stones sort of dotted around. It’s like a horseshoe shape of these three large internal stones that line up to certain astronomical bodies on the solstices. They would have been used in the ancient times as sort of observational points or marking points of some sort, I guess.
Steven: [0:10:39] Yeah, and so there are lintels which are the ones that sit on top?
Stefan: [0:10:43] Yeah.
Steven: [0:10:44] And what are the stones supporting the horizontal stones called? Is there a name for them or not really? So there are the vertically standing stones and then the horizontal ones that are laid on top. So it was originally a circle these made up.
Stefan: [0:11:02] Yeah, and they are not just placed on top of the standing stones. These lintel stones were carved out in mortar and pestle joints which are using woodworking to create sort of complex joints where you don’t need screws or nails.
You can just put the pieces of timber together like a jigsaw puzzle and that’s what they were doing 3000+ BC with stone. Even lifting those stones up to that point would have been remarkable enough but the fact that they could join them with pretty advanced joinery, especially with stone, would have been pretty tough to put that together.
Steven: [0:11:45] Incomprehensible really. I think they’ve tried to recreate and they’ve used lots of groups and men and police systems to recreate that. But to me, it doesn’t really explain how you go and design a huge, that lever system. What do you call it?
Stefan: [0:12:11] To lift the stones?
Steven: [0:12:13] No.
Stefan: [0:12:14] The mortar and pestle joints.
Steven: [0:12:15] Yeah so stones of that magnitude and mortar and pestle with the plan to, is a huge design. I don’t know I just don’t see, anyway, they recreated at some point, but they also had issues.
Stefan: [0:12:30] Yeah, I remember watching that documentary and I think the boat that eventually arrived with the stone ended up sinking because it was too heavy. They were trying to recreate it to only use equipment and tools that were available back 3000 BC and they couldn’t do it.
So it sort of throws up into how they managed to do it because those stones weren’t just around the corner. They didn’t just pick them up from around the local landscape. They were kind of all taken from very far away places.
Steven: [0:13:03] There were two types of stones, the sarsen stones which were the bigger ones which you probably recognize from Stonehenge and then they were quarried reasonably close?
Stefan: [0:13:12] Yeah, I think they were only 20 to 30 miles away to the north of England. But some of these stones I think weighed up to five or 10 tons which are moving that today, people say that it was ropes and lift and huge amounts of people. But trying to move a 25-ton block seems very—
Steven: [0:13:40] Yes 25 tons, that’s enormous.
Stefan: [0:13:43] And not just that heavy but huge. I think the tallest is 30 feet. Try and imagine a stone that big being moved in and placed and dragged along the ground for 30 miles. You would have had to be really sure of what you are building.
Steven: [0:14:01] Then shaping it in a mortar and pestle, it’s unbelievable and the scale. And then to make it more complicated there are different types of stones called blue stones which were the ones place in the middle. And they went to the trouble of quarrying them in Wales, which is 160 miles or kilometers?
Stefan: [0:14:18] Yeah, 160 miles. I don’t even know where to start with that one.
Steven: [0:14:28] Their landscape was quite different back then too. There would have been more forests.
Stefan: [0:14:32] Yeah, driving through England today there are lots of farm and lots of hills and there are small amounts of woodland and that sort of thing. But back before civilization in the UK it would have been dense forest land and lots of strains and really.
That area is quite swampy and marshy and it would have been really difficult to maneuver the landscape and also carry these stones and put them in place. I don’t even know how they would have carved them.
Steven: [0:15:02] A huge project of people we don’t know and obviously for a purpose that we still don’t know. So it just goes to the mystery of Stonehenge, doesn’t it? There’s something around the landscape and the relationship to water as well or the water surrounding?
Stefan: [0:15:19] Yeah.
Steven: [0:15:23] There’s a moat next door. One, there’s a ditch dug around the outside of the complex. I read something on that it lies on the highest point so it would have potentially being like an island at some point, maybe?
Stefan: [0:15:46] Yeah. I think there are some people that have talked about the potential waterways that were nearby and that Stonehenge sits on the highest point of the surrounding area. So it could have potentially been a place where people would have had to get to by water whether that’s by boat or by wading or swimming through the water.
But it was kind of this high place with this megalithic site just placed on top. But there’s this strange connection with water as well. I think Stonehenge if you drew a line of latitude from Stonehenge across around the earth it covers the least amount of land of any other latitude. So you would hit more water than land in that specific latitude than you would in any other one.
Steven: [0:01:22] Those are strange measurements. I never knew how anyone comes up with that.
Stefan: [0:16:37] Yeah, is it just someone looking for coincidences? But there seems to be some sort of connection to water and similar to a lot of other sites, especially in the UK but also around the world it seems like they were very specific about where they decided to build.
They didn’t come across the spot and build there and then drag the stones. They waited until they found the perfect place. There are a lot of old practices of what we call magic or witchcraft or divination or things talked about in ancient times.
This was really revered by the ancient. So whether the builders of Stonehenge did that or not we are still not sure. But there is a really interesting because the structure you see now of Stonehenge wasn’t built originally that way. It was built in stages over, I think, a few thousand years.
Steven: [0:17:40] Up to 10000 years which is interesting for the water because there were potentially times when water levels may have been higher. Maybe not 10, well, depending on there was obviously fluctuations but there are pine poles in the car park that have been carbon dated to 10000 years old.
Stefan: [0:18:01] Yeah, which you would barely notice they were there when you go to Stonehenge. You enter the site and you walk across the country and you get to the site and then hidden away in the corner are these old, just in the car park, I think next to the car park there are these three flat monuments, just circles on the ground representing the stone poles that were once there when they first found the site. These date back 10000 years. The first stages of Stonehenge didn’t begin till about 3100 BC.
Steven: [0:18:44] Yeah, the outer rim.
Stefan: [0:18:45] Yeah, so there’s this huge span of time where these poles were either acting as some sort of guide for people to realize that this space was sacred or this space was important. It’s almost like they were marking out the landscape for some future traveler or some future culture who understood the importance of that area would realize that it was a good place to build this site.
Steven: [0:19:11] It’s a huge span time too. I mean, we are talking here 10000 to 3150BC, 7000 years so something’s going on here for a long time. The other thing too that I don’t really see much on is that there’s really no discussion because 10000 years ago is a long time. That’s long before many of the known settlings in the UK and so what could have possibly been the explanation for that?
Stefan: [0:19:49] Yeah. And it’s not just leaving a small stone as a marking. These were huge tree trunks that were either buried, I think they were buried a few meters down into the earth and they were poking out.
Steven: [0:20:01] Is there any talk of them being like totem poles or anything like that?
Stefan: [0:20:05] I don’t know. All I’ve heard is that they seemed to be marking the site. But it’s strange because as we were saying before the first stages of what is now Stonehenge began construction at around 3150 BC. Dating for it has been really hard because you obviously can’t date stone.
So it’s left to evidence of bones or of tools or materials that were left behind. But around that time was when there was the ditch that now surrounds Stonehenge was thought to have been dug and the first of the timber, they were originally timber.
Well, they thought that they were originally timber poles that just circled the sites so it was just like a very primitive stone circle made of timber posts surrounded by this ditch. And then, I’m not sure exactly the next steps that got to where Stonehenge is now.
I remember seeing it all in the Stonehenge museum that we passed by a few years ago. But yeah there was about 2,000 years of transition to the site that is today. So there was obviously a big project that had been designed. There was like a blueprint that was being followed. It wasn’t just built and left.
The site was marked. The people returned or the people had knowledge of why this site was important and then the building started, if you were part of building the site back in Neolithic times, for us anyway.
It’s strange to think of starting a project that you are not going to finish in your life and knowing that it’s for a purpose for everyone to enjoy it even if it’s 2000 years in advance. That seems ridiculous to us now. I can’t imagine saying I need to build my house and saying it’s not going to be done for 2000 years but someone will enjoy it one day.
Steven: [0:22:06] Yeah, completely incomprehensible. But also these kinds of trends occur around the world too. In Egyptian and Mayan and other cultures, there’s evidence that sites were built in stages and on top of each other, pyramids.
The Mayan, many of the pyramids had bases that seemed to be this marketing point of this sacred point where there would be these huge structures similar to Stonehenge. And so you start at 10,000 years in the car park then you go in, and see how to reach this day to roughly 3200 BC and then 1500 BC is the final inner.
It was this 7000-year span which you don’t really hear much about that there was so much going on. There are also even other sites around. There’s a super hinge that’s been found which we’ll cover that has huge, huge, a much, much larger ring.
The remnants of that were older and larger. When you connect this all to all the other sites around the Salisbury plane, it’s bizarre to think what was going on and to think we don’t know who these people were.
Stefan: [0:23:21] Yeah. There’s a researcher named Alexander Tom who is probably the forefather of the obsession of stone circles and understanding Stonehenge and other sites around England.
He spent a lot of his life going to these sites going and measuring every last stone and measuring the circles and measuring the distances between stones and the alignments that they faced and collating all this data to try and get a picture of why.
Because these sites, it wasn’t that they were just stone circles all across the UK. Alexander Tom found that all these sites followed the same blueprint in terms of measurement. You could deduce down and find this common unit of measure. He called the megalithic yard which I think it’s 2.72 feet.
This measurement is found all through Avebury which is that large stone circle. We are talking about all through the stone circles that he found in Scotland and Ireland. Stonehenge has the same measurements. It seems like while Stonehenge was being built and as part of this design that spanned thousands of years, these other sites could have potentially been built by the same plan or by the same people.
Or at least by people who understood the same unit of measurement and sort of incorporated that into their culture. It’s a really strange thought trying to imagine these people who we still don’t really understand but we see these remnants of them, literally left to us in stone.
Steven: [0:24:58] What was his book? So what’s the measurement of, is it 2.71 that they use as a unit of measurement, do you know how he based to find that?
Stefan: [0:25:07] I think it was just to start. It was just a bit of trial and error. He’s sort of been discredited because he was working back in the days before radiocarbon dating so he was trying to date these sites by their astronomical alignments. So if he found measurements and found alignments through those measurements he would try and determine when they were built.
Steven: [0:25:34] And that’s how we came up with his measurement too via astronomical?
Stefan: [0:25:39] Yeah. Everyone knows that Stonehenge, it’s one of the biggest parties in the UK. On the summer solstice, there are 40000 plus people that go there, and there’s from early afternoon until well into the night until the next morning.
There are drumming circles and fireworks, and people chanting and there are paintings and Druids, people from all walks of life that go and celebrate and wait for the sunrise, sun to rise on the summer solstice. I’ve never seen in my life.
I’ve seen videos and pictures of it but the sun rises perfectly over this center stone. It’s still so thought-provoking to people today that thousands and thousands of people go. It’s still so celebrated because it’s such a phenomenal thing to see.
Steven: [0:26:39] It’s growing too which is quite remarkable that something so old it’s not dying out. This is getting more and more and more popular. And they’ve put a visitor centre in Stonehenge because of the traffic of people that go there.
And then as you say the celebrations on this which may have been similar to what was happening actually when it was being used. The interests in these sites are growing. Stonehenge is the most popular or the most well-known megalithic site in the world. The Egyptian pyramids might actually be the most well-known but anyway, it’s one of the most.
Stefan: [0:27:13] Yeah. When you talk about ancient sites, you say the pyramids and Stonehenge. They’re definitely the starting point, I’d say.
Steven: [0:27:22] Yeah. We are not having these things in history and then leaving. The interests are growing. We are going to be covering this a lot because, as you said, there’s a lot to this history that we don’t know and so it’s really I think within our interest to understand this more.
It’s interesting, the idea of archeoastronomy and understanding what the people knew that built these monuments, what they were directing to in terms of the astronomical lines now is much better known. This has been one of the biggest advancements in understanding these megalithic sites is that they were built with knowledge and alignment to astronomical bodies.
And summer solstice which marks the longest day of the year in the United Kingdom is aligned too with these stones. There are sites all over the planet that do this, particularly in Ireland, there are some sites that do and there are lots of different things they measured.
But there’s no argument now that megalithic and ancient sites were built with the idea of these astronomical bodies. There are more alignments to that too, aren’t there?
Stefan: [0:28:41] Yeah, there are some really interesting alignments as we’ve talked about, the summer solstice sunrise. The winter solstice sunset is also very popular among the diehard fans of Stonehenge. They go out there in the freezing cold snow and brave the winds in the English countryside to witness the sun setting on the winter solstice.
But also there were these numbers that kept popping up within Stonehenge which point to astronomical alignments. The outer stone circle is made up of 29.5 stones, not 30 or 29 but 29.5 which is the number of the lunar month which seems to relate to the astronomy of the site and how the ancients were following the moon and tracking it in stone and understanding that this was an important figure to keep note of.
Steven: [0:29:47] That’s remarkable that there are multiple astronomical measurements written into this site in that 29.5 years being the lunar cycle which isn’t a particularly hard, it’s one of the easiest astronomical—
Stefan: [0:30:00] Yeah but just the fact that you would include that in your, I mean you see the moon fill and then become new and start again. But the fact that they went to so much trouble to encode that into the structure is really fascinating to me.
Steven: [0:30:20] This is something that we look at with the calendars a lot but the lunar cycle was far more integrated into people’s lives than what they are today. We have a pseudo mini solar calendar today where we have days of the month, which are based on the cycle.
And so the fact that these people kept more accurate track of the moon than we do is quite interesting because you don’t in your everyday life really think of the lunar cycle. We are going to cover this but there are biological and geological, it affects the tides of the earth.
But the lunar, the moon itself is a six of the gravity influence as to the earth so it influences all the bodies of water on earth in tides. And so does this speak of ancient people having a tighter knowledge of these influences? To me, it feels like they do.
Stefan: [0:31:23] Yeah, there are all these old examples in ancient cultures of these numbers popping up again and again, obviously the lunar cycle is a big one. As you said we’ll talk about it in a future podcast but a lot of the earliest calendars are lunar calendars or lunar-solar calendars.
Steven: [0:31:40] And some exist even today as with the Jewish calendar.
Stefan: [0:31:43] Yeah, yeah. There’s a lot of dependence on the cycle of the moon and how that syncs up to your culture. Everything is based on time for us today. If you’ve got that perfectly aligned in the structure that really shows how important it is to keep track of them to make sure it doesn’t drift and doesn’t change.
Another interesting number is the number 19 which pops up a lot in an old cult like the Mayan I think have the number 19 quite a lot. The Chinese calendar, have the number 19. And the 19, in regards to Stonehenge, there are 19 bluestones that make up the horseshoe shape.
19 is the number of years and the Metonic cycle which pretty much means that if there’s a full moon on your birthday, say today’s your birthday and there’s a full moon in the sky, on that very same day in 19 years there will be another full moon.
So it’s just another way to keep things in sync and to understand, a way to cast in stone that sort of knowledge to keep track of the very important to the culture that was responsible for building it.
Steven: [0:33:07] Of the lunar cycle, we definitely don’t consider the Metonic cycle in that there is this 19-year exact lining up of the lunar calendar. We’ll cover that in detail so there were 19 stones within the represented this year, is that what it was?
Stefan: [0:33:24] Yes, each year you tick over to the next one and that’s kind of like if you imagine looking at Stonehenge from the top and picture it as a clock with these different spinning axes of information.
But there’s another interesting number that pops up in the Aubrey Circle which is the first installment of Stonehenge where there these ancient circular holes dug. There were 56 of them which were heavily influenced in the use of eclipses and predicting eclipses especially.
That’s something that is quite complex to describe without images so I think we’ll talk about that. We’ll probably have an article about that in the near future but as a clock hand does, if you track the sun and the moon around these 56 stones I think the degree of accuracy for predicting eclipses is something like 99.4% accuracy.
I don’t know when the next lunar eclipse is. I don’t think many people you talk to you would know but the inhabitants or the builders of Stonehenge definitely knew and definitely wanted everyone to know or wanted to encode it for—
Steven: [0:34:43] There’s quite a complex mathematic process to understand.
Stefan: [0:34:47] Yeah. I was trying to wrap my head around it today but it’s pretty in-depth, I think.
Steven: [0:34:53] So it’s all written into the stones which that’s remarkable that it’s this huge calendar system that marks time and astronomical bodies. This idea of our connection to our solar system and beyond is very, very interesting. I haven’t been there either but just seeing that sunrise on that summer solstice day and then the hitting exactly on that hill stone it must be a remarkable feeling.
These kinds of observations were made all around the world, they were marking these points. I think it’s beyond time too. There must be something significant about that for them to go this much because imagine how hard it is all of those construction metrics that we talked about.
The size of the stones, the distance of the stone to the quarry, carving of the stones and then to put them into exact the one in a spot that was marked 10000 years before. That blows my mind as to what they were thinking of. I want to know that the other one but two, I think we really need to really appreciate the complexity of these people.
Stefan: [0:36:05] Yeah and I think that’s one of the most important things, just realizing that it’s not just some stone standing on the hillside now. It’s this ancient mystery that people are still flocking to. There are millions and millions of people that go to Stonehenge.
When you go there and see it and I’m sure people listening will have the same experience, when you physically are there you can’t actually walk inside the stones but you get close enough to really feel the power of the landscape and the power of imagining what it would have once looked like. It’s breathtaking.
Steven: [0:36:41] There are many mounds around them. We mentioned the part of a bigger complex but there are many mounds around Stonehenge too. There’s also a large runway kind of. That was the first thing you met with when you go start to walk over to the site from the visitors and there’s this is a huge runway.
Stefan: [0:36:59] Yeah, it’s very bizarre. It’s like a long flat runway. There are all these conspiracy theories of people saying it’s a UFO landing side or people saying that was just a carved, it was just for the water to flow down or whatever. But surrounding this are these strange little [0:37:17] and mounds of earthworks. It looks like Braille writing like they’re just little clusters here and there dotted around the landscape.
Steven: [0:37:25] Some say they represent stars too.
Stefan: [0:37:27] Yeah. I don’t know much about them. I just know that they are everywhere around Stonehenge and also around the surrounding areas like Avebury and Silbury Hill. No one really knows. There are people talking about that they could have been astronomical, they could represent stars, who knows?
Steven: [0:37:51] Who knows, indeed? There’s a lot to cover on this topic. I think in the future, we’ll cover the other sites like Avebury. Also too there’s an interesting line on who built these sites and going back to these other sites so we’ll be covering that as well.
But overall a lot of research has gone to this, many scientists, many independent researchers, and all these people just visiting the site. We are still a long way from the answer, aren’t we?
Stefan: [0:38:22] Yeah. I think just the fact that there are so many people that have been really looking into this for so long there was so much out there to go through. There’s almost too much. It’s really hard knowing where to turn to and whom to talk to about it because there’s just such a wealth of information.
But no one is really pulling it all together which is something that’s been really exciting. I’ve actually been to Stonehenge three times now I think and the second time, I went with another friend who knew a lot about the site and talked me through a lot of things that he’d come across through just talking to friends and through reading old strange books he found in libraries and talking to the locals.
There’s so much information out there but it’s really hard to dig through unless you’ve got a basis for it and that’s really what we are trying to get down here. It’s really opening up, a lot of new questions but also a lot of new information which is really exciting.
Steven: [0:39:28] Definitely. All right, so I think that pretty much covers it, doesn’t it? There’s going to be a lot more on this topic. So anyone that has anything they’d like covered on Stonehenge or anything they’ve particularly read or researched or would like research please leave it in the comments section on the social media.
There’s an article on the website with an infographic on the details that we talked about in this show and also in the show notes as well. We’ll link to the different references. All right, I think that pretty much covers it. What are we going to talk about next week?
Stefan: [0:40:09] Maybe we should talk about the calendar systems. We gave everyone a bit of a teaser.
Steven: [0:40:13] That’s was a bit of a teaser, wasn’t it? Yeah. Okay. There’s a lot of stuff to cover.
Stefan: [0:40:17] We could start with our calendar, maybe.
Steven: [0:40:18] Yeah, the Gregorian calendar. I’m looking forward to it.
Stefan: [0:40:21] See you guys then.
Steven: [0:40:23] Bye Stefan, see you, man.
Stefan: [0:40:23] See you.
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