I’ve just seen the new BBC #Stonehenge film. To those archaeologists upset by The Dig (a movie drama) I say: watch this (a documentary). Some lovely film, & great to see dig sequences (congrats Ian Potts, Fiona Scott & colleagues). And the new stone circle is a great discovery...
Drive of MPP & colleagues to achieve that is v impressive. The discovery feeds into a growing picture of links between the Preseli and Stonehenge areas in prehistory. Sledge experiment was fun. Fascinating stuff, and more could be said. So why all the guff, BBC?
It doesn't make Stonehenge second-hand: c 25 stones (+ 4 left behind) does not make a ring of 56 stones in Wiltshire. That those 25 went to Stonehenge is entirely hypothetical. OSL "perfect" date of c 3300BC? Actual OSL = 3530±330.
Alice Roberts: "The most interesting new information about Stonehenge that has emerged during my lifetime." So more interesting than study of 20C excavations, 14C dating, digs at Durrington Walls, Cursus, Avenue, Woodhenge, cremation burials, isotopes, A-Saxon execution, etc etc?
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