Stonehenge (Photo: Ken Taylor)
By Ken Taylor, PWI Reporter Wiltshire
WILTSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM - English Heritage are to carry out a complete 3D laser scan at Stonehenge using recently developed high-resolution technology.
They expect to gain a much better idea of the extent of the carvings on the famous stones, and a greater understanding of the monument and the ground in its immediate surroundings.
This latest survey follows intensive archaeological investigation and study across the whole Stonehenge landscape in recent years. Theories have widened on the purpose of the 10,000 year sequence of timber, stone and earth structures spread over this south-east corner of Salisbury Plain. Was the area a place of healing or a domain of the dead?
Some academics believe that it was both and that processions took place from the land of the living to the land of the dead, passing up the nearby River Avon to Stonehenge and its nearby groups of burial barrows.
Stonehenge is located in Wiltshire 120km west of Heathrow and 12 km north of the cathedral city of Salisbury. English Heritage owns and manages the stone circle and the surrounding landscape is owned by the charity The National Trust.
-- by Ken Taylor - PWI Regional Reporter Wiltshire - wiltshire@peoplewebinternational.com
WILTSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM - English Heritage are to carry out a complete 3D laser scan at Stonehenge using recently developed high-resolution technology.
They expect to gain a much better idea of the extent of the carvings on the famous stones, and a greater understanding of the monument and the ground in its immediate surroundings.
This latest survey follows intensive archaeological investigation and study across the whole Stonehenge landscape in recent years. Theories have widened on the purpose of the 10,000 year sequence of timber, stone and earth structures spread over this south-east corner of Salisbury Plain. Was the area a place of healing or a domain of the dead?
Some academics believe that it was both and that processions took place from the land of the living to the land of the dead, passing up the nearby River Avon to Stonehenge and its nearby groups of burial barrows.
Stonehenge is located in Wiltshire 120km west of Heathrow and 12 km north of the cathedral city of Salisbury. English Heritage owns and manages the stone circle and the surrounding landscape is owned by the charity The National Trust.
-- by Ken Taylor - PWI Regional Reporter Wiltshire - wiltshire@peoplewebinternational.com
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