English Heritage have recently commissioned a new, complete 3D laser scan of Stonehenge. This will involve scanning the land in the ‘Stonehenge triangle’, the ground immediately surrounding the stones at a higher resolution, and of course the stones themselves, at a resolution of 0.5mm. You can find out more about the equipment and aims at [...]
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A Virtual Stonehenge Landscape
Over the past few months I’ve been hard at work producing an animation of the Environment Agency LIDAR survey of the Stonehenge World Heritage site. The resulting video is currently playing on an HD plasma screen in the “Making History: Antiquaries In Britain, 1707–2007” exhibition at the Royal Academy in London. Read more about the [...]
Stonehenge trilithons are older than we thought
The latest edition of the archaeology journal, Antiquity (Volume 81 No. 313 September 2007, link to summary) contains an article by Mike Parker Pearson et al entitled “The age of Stonehenge”. It is a summary of progress so far on the Stonehenge Riverside Project and the Beaker isotope project, and contains some interesting and important [...]
Another theory about how Stonehenge was built
A colleague pointed me at the BBC homepage today, which was featuring a nice slideshow displaying images of Stonehenge. The photos linked through to a story entitled “Stonehenge building riddle tackled“. It’s always fun to suggest how the great sarsen lintels might have been raised on top of the upright stones, and there have been [...]