Medievalists.net » Stonehenge http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 What remains: Improper burials tell a story of social change in medieval Britain http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/16/what-remains-improper-burials-tell-a-story-of-social-change-in-medieval-britain/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/16/what-remains-improper-burials-tell-a-story-of-social-change-in-medieval-britain/#comments Sat, 16 Mar 2013 18:08:23 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=39879 Stonehenge, by the 11th century, lay on the border of two administrative districts known as hundreds, and many scholars have argued that it marked an important territorial boundary even earlier. It would have been a site known to everyone in the region but inhabited by no one.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/16/what-remains-improper-burials-tell-a-story-of-social-change-in-medieval-britain/feed/ 0 Observational Archaeoastronomy at Stonehenge: Winter and Summer Solstice Sun Rise and Set Alignments Accurate to 0.2 o in 4000 BP http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/21/observational-archaeoastronomy-at-stonehenge-winter-and-summer-solstice-sun-rise-and-set-alignments-accurate-to-0-2-o-in-4000-bp/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/21/observational-archaeoastronomy-at-stonehenge-winter-and-summer-solstice-sun-rise-and-set-alignments-accurate-to-0-2-o-in-4000-bp/#comments Fri, 21 Dec 2012 06:20:28 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=38189 Our studies since 1980 of Solstice and Equalnight Sun Rise and Set alignments at an ancient site in southern Alberta, the Majorville Medicine Wheel Complex (MMWC), have drawn our attention to Stonehenge (Atkinson 1979; Burl 1976, 1993). While there might have been no ideological or religious similarities between societies in North America and Britain 5000 years ago, we know of no evidence that there was not. Indeed, Sun worship was world-wide at that time.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/21/observational-archaeoastronomy-at-stonehenge-winter-and-summer-solstice-sun-rise-and-set-alignments-accurate-to-0-2-o-in-4000-bp/feed/ 0 Sacred, secular, or sacrilegious? prehistoric sites, pagans and the Sacred Sites project in Britain http://www.medievalists.net/2011/12/23/sacred-secular-or-sacrilegious-prehistoric-sites-pagans-and-the-sacred-sites-project-in-britain/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/12/23/sacred-secular-or-sacrilegious-prehistoric-sites-pagans-and-the-sacred-sites-project-in-britain/#comments Fri, 23 Dec 2011 20:11:46 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=28163 This paper introduces our Sacred Sites, Contested Rites/Rights Project (www.sacredsites.or.uk), now in its fifth year, and explores issues and tensions developing within today's Britain around prehistoric
'sacred sites' and ‘heritage’, and their appropriation by a wide range of interested or concerned
groups.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/12/23/sacred-secular-or-sacrilegious-prehistoric-sites-pagans-and-the-sacred-sites-project-in-britain/feed/ 0 A New Medieval view of Stonehenge http://www.medievalists.net/2011/12/23/a-new-medieval-view-of-stonehenge/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/12/23/a-new-medieval-view-of-stonehenge/#comments Fri, 23 Dec 2011 18:57:55 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=28154 For centuries we have known only two medieval depictions of Stonehenge. Now a third has been found, taking its place with Adam and Eve and other Christian stories in a history of the world. Christian Heck describes his discovery.

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