Around 8,000 years ago, prehistoric hunters killed an aurochs and their grilling techniques were frozen in time. THE GIST Remains of a butchered and cooked female aurochs (a prehistoric cow) have been identified from a Stone Age Netherlands site. The hunters appear to have cooked the meat over an open fire, eating the bone marrow [...]
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Prehistoric BBQ Leftovers Found – Amesbury Discovery
Posted in Amesbury, Archaeologists, archaeology, aurochs bones, british history, english culture, English Heritage, neolithic, prehistory, sightseeing, stone age, Stonehenge, visit wiltshire, wessex on February 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Stonehenge artists view West through Hardy’s eyes
Posted in countryside, dorset tours, events in wiltshire, histories, History, salisbury events, salisbury museum, sightseeing tours, Stonehenge, Stonehenge private tours, thomas hardy, wessex on January 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Intense and brooding images of Stonehenge and other prehistoric monuments in a new exhibition are taking visitors deep into the heart of Thomas Hardy’s ‘Wessex’. Archaeologists debate the purpose of Stonehenge, but for Hardy it was a haunting symbol of isolation and suffering. The exhibition by three artists at Salisbury Museum mirrors the Dorset author’s [...]
Orcadian temple predates Stonehenge by 500 years
Posted in Archaeologists, archaeology, histories, History, neolithic, prehistory, stone circle, Stonehenge, Stonehenge private tours on January 2, 2012 | 1 Comment »
THE discovery of a Stone Age temple on Orkney looks set to rewrite the archeological records of ancient Britain with evidence emerging it was built centuries before Stonehenge. Archeologists have so far found undisturbed artefacts including wall decorations, pigments and paint pots, which are already increasing their understanding of the Neolithic people. Experts believe the [...]
Stonehenge Winter Solstice Feast
Posted in Archaeologists, burial mounds, Druids, durrington walls, english culture, English Heritage, History, neolithic, prehistory, riverside project, sightseeing tours, Stonehenge, Stonehenge private tours, visit wiltshire on December 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A huge winter solstice feast might have taken place around Stonehenge some 4,500 years ago. Abundant cattle and pig bones recently unearthed a few miles from the megalithic site suggest that prehistoric people celebrated the connection between the stone circle and the sky with hundreds of roasts. According to initial research led by Mike Parker [...]
Top 10 Ancient Origins of Christmas Traditions
Posted in British Folklore, british history, Celts, christmas, Christmas Tours, Christmas traditions, Druids, England facts, english culture, Stonehenge, Wiltshire on December 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The lights are up, Noddy Holder’s voice is ringing in your ears and you’ve already eaten all your advent chocolate in a gluttonous frenzy. Yes it’s Christmas; that time of year reserved for frantic last-minute shopping, burnt turkeys and half-drunk carols in the front room. It’s also the Christian celebration of Jesus’ birth, of course: [...]
A Reading from Hyperion by John Keats
Posted in Druids, english culture, English Heritage, keats, stone circle, Stonehenge, Stonehenge private tours on December 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Scarce images of life, one here, one there, Lay vast and edgeways; like a dismal cirque Of Druid stones, upon a forlorn moor, When the chill rain begins at shut of eve, In dull November, and their chancel vault, The Heaven itself, is blinded throughout night. Each one kept shroud, nor to his neighbour gave [...]
Winter Solstice – Ancient tradition to be recreated in Amesbury
Posted in christmas, english culture, salisbury events, Stonehenge, stonehenge at sunset, Stonehenge private tours, strange wiltshire, visit wiltshire, wessex, Winter Solstice 2011 on November 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A TRADITION dating back 5,000 years is to be recreated in Amesbury to mark the mid-winter solstice. The town is holding its first lantern parade for centuries and hundreds of people are expected to take part. The procession will take place on Wednesday, December 21 and walkers will set off from Stonehenge as the sun [...]
Archaeologists make new Stonehenge ‘sun worship’ find
Posted in Archaeologists, british history, prehistory, sightseeing tours, Stonehenge, Stonehenge at sunrise, stonehenge at sunset, stonehenge cusus, Stonehenge private tours, visit wiltshire, wessex on November 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Two previously undiscovered pits have been found at Stonehenge which point to it once being used as a place of sun worship before the stones were erected. The pits are positioned on celestial alignment at the site and may have contained stones, posts or fires to mark the rising and setting of the sun. An [...]
Olympic Flame will visit every corner of the West Country
Posted in Glastonbury Tor, olympic games tickets, olympics 2012, Stonehenge, Stonehenge private tours, visit wiltshire, wessex, weymouth olympics, Wiltshire, world heritage on November 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The detailed route for the Olympic torch announced today sees the flame visiting more than 50 West Country communities, and passing historic landmarks including Stonehenge and Glastonbury Tor. More than 95 per cent of the population will be within ten miles of the torch as it makes a snaking journey from Cornwall to London’s Olympic [...]
Halloween – Celtic festivals – Samhain. October 31st
Posted in Avebury, British Folklore, celtic festival, Celts, England facts, english culture, halloween, History, samhain, stone circle, Stonehenge, Stonehenge private tours, wessex, Wiltshire on October 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Samhain marks one of the two great doorways of the Celtic year, for the Celts divided the year into two seasons: the light and the dark, at Beltane on May 1st and Samhain on November 1st. Some believe that Samhain was the more important festival, marking the beginning of a whole new cycle, just as [...]
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