[HN Gopher] Stonehenge's Continental Cousin
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       Stonehenge's Continental Cousin
        
       Author : diodorus
       Score  : 22 points
       Date   : 2021-01-09 05:52 UTC (17 hours ago)
        
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       | jccooper wrote:
       | Ground plan and more here:
       | https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/ri...
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       | At bottom you can see some rectangular structures of three rows
       | of post holes identified as "longhouses", a commonly-identified
       | neolithic building technique.
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       | Given the "ring" is also three rows of posts about 5m apart (with
       | the two inner rings having nearly the same feature count and the
       | outer ring having close to twice the features), it makes me
       | suspicious that this structure (and the many others like it in
       | Britain and northern Europe) was also a building, a (monumental)
       | annular longhouse. Whether shrine, palace, fort, or some
       | combination, a building makes a lot more sense than a bunch of
       | freestanding posts.
        
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       | Zickzack wrote:
       | The text says: "They also added some imaginative embellishments".
       | For me, these embellishments spell 'we hope for more tourists
       | than the other sites'.
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       | For the other sites, see here:
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolithic_circular_enclosures_...
        
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