the fieldwork took about 120 days, spread over four years.
new finds, including the more than 15 possible new or poorly understood Neolithic monuments. Gaffney emphasized possible, acknowledging that it will require digging—“the testimony of the spade”—to discover precisely what was there.
Two pits, marking the midsummer sunrise and the midsummer solstice, set within a monument that’s meant to be something to do with the passage of the sun.”
The “sunrise” pit was visible from Stonehenge, but the “sunset” pit was not
“Until you dig holes, you just don’t know what you’ve got,”
new finds, including the more than 15 possible new or poorly understood Neolithic monuments. Gaffney emphasized possible, acknowledging that it will require digging—“the testimony of the spade”—to discover precisely what was there.
Two pits, marking the midsummer sunrise and the midsummer solstice, set within a monument that’s meant to be something to do with the passage of the sun.”
The “sunrise” pit was visible from Stonehenge, but the “sunset” pit was not
“Until you dig holes, you just don’t know what you’ve got,”
“It’s going to take years.”