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Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of what they believe to be a 20ft fence designed to screen Stonehenge from the view of unworthy Stone Age Britons.



The dig's co-director Dr Josh Pollard, of Bristol University, said: "The construction must have taken a lot of manpower. The palisade is an open structure which would not have been defensive and was too high to be practical for controlling livestock. It certainly wasn�t for hunting herded animals and so, like everything else in this ceremonial landscape, we have to believe it must have had a religious significance. The most plausible explanation is that it was built at huge cost to the community to screen the environs of Stonehenge from view. Basically, we think it was to keep the lower classes from seeing what exactly their rulers and the priestly class were doing."



Mike Pitts, editor of British Archaeology Magazine and author of the book Hengeworld, said: "This is a fantastic insight into what the landscape would have looked like. This huge wooden palisade would have snaked across the landscape, blotting out views to Stonehenge from one side. The other side was the ceremonial route to the Henge from the River Avon and would have been shielded by the contours. The palisade would have heightened the mystery of whatever ceremonies were performed and it would have endowed those who were privy to those secrets with more power and prestige. In modern terms, you had to be invited or have a ticket to get in."

20ft British Petroleum Snow Fence Confirmed

I cannot even turn a computer on. But dentist Doctor Garry Whilhelm Denke (1622-1699), the historian and antiquarian of late prehistoric British Isles coal exploration, has only one theory in his German Diary embracing Cursus Palisades (Cursus Snow Fences; such as Rudston Cursus Snow Fences in Yorkshire, the Fornham All Saints Curses Snow Fence in Suffolk, the Cleaven Dyke Cursus Snow Fence in Perthshire, the Dorset Cursus Snow Fences in Dorsetshire, and the Great Cursus Snow Fence in Wiltshire. Each first parallel ditch of Cursus Palisades (Cursus Snow Fences) was a coal exploration, and each second parallel ditch of Cursus Palisades (Cursus Snow Fences) completed a snow fence construction.

According to Dr. Garry Whilhelm Denke's German Diary, as translated by Mammy Tree Harry (scholar), the older stone Cursus Snow Fences (dating from around 3800 BC) and the newer wood Stonehenge Palisade (dating from around 3000 BC) i.e, Denke's Stonehenge Snow Fence, are not mysterious British Isles earthworks of the Neolithic landscape. After their initial coal exploration purpose, they (snow fences) were invented by Salisbury Plain farmers and ranchers attempting to survive in a harsh climate. 5,000-year-old Stonehenge Superbowl wintertime snow drifts were practically eliminated by Stonehenge Snow Fence, which doubled in summertime as the adjacent Stonehenge Baseball Park's outfield fence.

So, as you can see, there is one non-religious theory. Unfortunately, both Michaels (Pitts and Pearson) claim that no agricultural (farming and ranching) production of goods through the growing of plants and the raising of domesticated animals occurred on Salisbury Plain during the Neolithic. According to them (and other British archaeologists), there was absolutely no need for any agriculture, thus British Isles snow fences are ruled out. Cultivation of crops on Salisbury Plain arable land, and pastoral herding of livestock on Salisbury Plain rangeland, simply did not occur during the Stone Age they say. No, "like everything else in this ceremonial landscape, we have to believe it must have had a religious significance".

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Really? There was no agricultural production of goods through the growing of plants and no raising of domesticated animals occurring on Salisbury Plain during the Neolithic?

Man, what a let down. I thought for sure that there agricultural production of goods through the growing of plants and the raising of domesticated animals on Salisbury Plain during the Neolithic.

That news is just as bad as finding nothing in Al Capone's vault in the Underworld. Bummer.

Stonehenge Luau

Now they say livestock was at Stonehenge

Stone-age pilgrims 'held barbecues at Stonehenge' - Telegraph
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Stone-age tribesmen 'held barbecues at Stonehenge' - mirror.co.uk

And that Stonehenge Luau evidence exists

Maybe farming too

Luau?? Are you serious? Luau weren't even held until the mid 1800's. I was married to someone who was born and raised in Hawaii. that is a Hawaiian word... Did they serve poi and poke as well??

Interesting enough it still snows at Stonehenge:



Just not as much as it did 5,000 years ago!

Stonehenge Luau?

Yep

Garry,

Honestly - you cannot site yourself as authentic proof of the theories that you are spouting on here.

When one is trying to back up a theory, it is usually advisable to quote other sources for support.

Dr Garry Denke's core samples of Stonehenge Palisade Snow Fence postholes nearest Heelstone Ditch dated the first Neolithic snow fence (~3000 BC). The wooden Neolithic palisade (Oak) snow fence posts and rails were replaced several times, up to the Late Bronze Age / Early Iron Age.

Wood fence posts and rails rotted rather quickly, considering they were buried in Stonehenge snowmelt. Fortunately, stone type Cursus Snow Fences were made of more durable rocks. Stonehenge Palisade Snow Fence was taller because large livestock populations required Spring water.

Prof Mike Parker Pearson (Univeristy of Sheffield), Prof Julian Thomas (University of Manchester), Dr Joshua Pollard University of Bristol), Dr Colin Richards (University of Manchester), Chris Tilley (University College London), and Dr Kate Welham (Bournemouth University), claim otherwise.



Avenue and Cursus ditches: Spring stock ponds;
palisade snow fences made winter travel easier

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Dr Garry Denke (1622-1699)

How can Garry Denke be here if Garry Denke died in 1699?