The Underground Secrets of Stonehenge

[azzthom]

A team has spent Four years examining the area around Stonehenge using a variety of techniques, and the results are surprising to say the least. Evidence has been found for seventeen previously unknown monuments in the area, as well as new structures related to previously known monuments.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-29126854

 

[This is The End]

Operation Stonehenge: What Lies Beneath is shown on BBC Two at 2000 on Thursday 11 September.

I wonder if that is watchable online from the US...

 

[fuelair]

Wheeee! and thank you for the info!!!!!

 

[Monketi Ghost]

First thing I've heard about Stonehenge in years that's actually interesting!

 

[Gord_in_Toronto]

First thing I've heard about Stonehenge in years that's actually interesting!

You missed the documentary about it being built by dinosaurs?????

 

[Monketi Ghost]

You missed the documentary about it being built by dinosaurs?????

That was the one where Jesus stands atop a T-Rex to set the capstones, right?

 

[Anerystos]

It's apparently the first of two programmes on Stonehenge. Presumably the second is next Thursday.

I remember when you could actually get up to the stones and touch them. Nostalgia is wonderful!

Presumably, OnlyTellsTruths, if you can get BBC iplayer you can watch it. It's well worth it - I've recorded it to watch again.

 

[JohnG]

I remember when you could actually get up to the stones and touch them.

I blame the Griswolds.

 

[often mrunderstood]

I blame the Griswolds.

Haha! Well played Sir!

"We'll be pigs!"

 

[Gord_in_Toronto]

Funny. I did not see much but large stones when I was last there.

(In August 1947 according to what my Mum wrote on the back of the photo.)

http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/album.php?albumid=268&pictureid=9119

 

[Wolrab]

You missed the documentary about it being built by dinosaurs?????

Ever notice the similarity with the architecture on The Flintstones?

 

[lionking]

Presumably, OnlyTellsTruths, if you can get BBC iplayer you can watch it. It's well worth it - I've recorded it to watch again.

I'm pretty sure BBC iplayer only works in the UK. It certainly doesn't work in Australia.

Good information about Stonehenge BTW. It was one of the first places I visited on my first trip to the UK and it was a very emotional (as well as freezing) experience.

 

[angrysoba]

It's apparently the first of two programmes on Stonehenge. Presumably the second is next Thursday.

I remember when you could actually get up to the stones and touch them. Nostalgia is wonderful!

Yeah, most of the older people in my family were able to do that, but not any more unless you are President of the United States or something...

#apparatchiki

 

[Baffled]

Funny. I did not see much but large stones when I was last there.

(In August 1947 according to what my Mum wrote on the back of the photo.)

http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/album.php?albumid=268&pictureid=9119

Are you the one on the right or the left?

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

First thing I've heard about Stonehenge in years that's actually interesting!

You mean other than Dr. Erik Selvig running around it naked, right?

 

[Gord_in_Toronto]

Are you the one on the right or the left?

If you are asking about the little tiny figure on the far right of the photo, he is actually one of the "Little People" known to inhabit the wilds of Wiltshire. Or at least did so until they joined a travelling circus in the early 1950s.

 

[Andy_Ross]

What about this documentary from 2010.

There are all kinds of chambers and machinery right down int the bedrock!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1488598/?ref_=nv_sr_1

 

[FromBelgiumWithLove]

What about this documentary from 2010.

There are all kinds of chambers and machinery right down into the bedrock!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1488598/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Thanks for that. I haven't even watched all of it yet, but it's highly amusing so far. One of the things that makes me laugh is that the scientists who are supposed to be merely sitting at computers are dressed up in white lab coats. Why? And the recreations of Stonehenge look about as realistic as what I tried to make myself out of styrofoam, glue, and paint, to accompany my Playmobil stone age people. (I gave up on the project mostly for lack of storage space. The box with the two different Playmo Stone Age tribes, the sabre-tooth tigers, the cave bears, the mammoths, etc., was already pretty much full.)

 

[Corsair 115]

I just watched a BBC program in which it was said the Pandorica was buried under Stonehenge...

 

[lionking]

What?
You can't touch the stones anymore?

I suspect it would have been at least 10 years since you were prevented from touching the stones. You certainly couldn't do it when I visited 8 years ago.