Britain is full of mysteries and ancient tales. People have lived and survived on these islands for centuries. One of the biggest mysteries is Stonehenge.

When drilling new tube lines under London the workers are in fact escalating through history; Medieval time, Viking Era, The Celtic tribes, the Roman outposts, the stone age and so on.

Britain was populated by early modern humans for approximately 30 000 years ago. The ice age drove them out some 3000 years later. The re-population started 16 000 years ago – a very rapid movement from the mainland Europe. At this time Britain was a peninsula. Read more about this in National Geographic.

One of the old and remarkable mysteries from the early zivilisations in Britain is Stonehenge. A prehistoric stone circle monument, one among several others, but the far most known. About 25 miles north of Stonehenge is the Avebury complex. This is argued to be the most impressive of all remaining prehistoric earthworks in Europe.

Stonehenge was constructed about 3100 BC. The construction took place in three phases, and the whole construction was estimated to over 30 million hours of labour. Big blocks of stone was carried from Wales.

No one really knows for sure the use of Stonehenge. Different theories claims everything from an old sacred place, a temple, a pagan site of sacrifice, a building for astronomical purposes and so on. A lot of mysteries about Stonehenge will stay un-resolved.

Recently archeologists found a chop of horn in a trench close to Stonehenge. This trench is called Cursus and it is 3 kilometers long and 100 meters wide. Today this can only be seen from above.
The chop was dated back to app. 3600-3300 BC, and the trench have the same age. This makes the Cursus 500 years older than Stonehenge. The Cursus can then be the precursor of Stonehenge.
A team from the University of Manchester is examinating the Cursus. The team is lead by Professor Julian Thomas.

Professor Thomas said that they don’t know what the Cursus was used for. But they do know it encloses a pathway which has been inaccessible. This suggests that it was either a sanctified or a cursed area. Thomas added that their colleagues led by a team from Sheffield University have dated some of the cremated human remains from Stonehenge itself. This caused another sensational discovery and proved that burial cremation took place at Stonehenge as early as 2900 BC, soon after the monument was first built.

Some of the mysteries at Stonehenge are partly explained, but new mysteries continue to develop as new findings appear. But the very old mystery remains. No one can tell for sure what Stonehenge was built for. Nor the Cursus which perhaps was the precursor to Stonehenge.

The pagan mysticism and diverse New Age movements will probably never loose this fantastic temple of mysticism to pure historic science.

Read more about Stonehenge in Wikipedia:
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