The May 14th Chicago Tribune had an article by Thea Chard about the first excavation within the circle of stones in over 40 years. A team of British archaeologists hope to prove the site was more of a healing spa tham place of sacrament.
They are looking closely at the 82 bluestones which form a double circle with some of them weighing 4 tons that were brought in during the second stage of Stonehenge about 2100 BC and are the first stone construction at the site.
About 150 years later, they were rearranged and the larger sarsen stones brought in.
The bluestones were brought in somehow, from the Preseli Hills in Wales, about 250 miles away. The Welch site had springs that were believed to have medicinal powers.
The team also hopes to get a correct timeline of Stonehenge to within ten years by collecting and analyzing samples taken from the site.
This Date in History: In 1927, "Lucky" Lindbergh took off from Roosevelt Field in New York in the small plane Spirit of St. Louis" en route for Paris and the history books.
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