Down in bermuda relic monument portable#
Nash and University of Brighton geologist Jake Ciborowski used a portable x-ray spectrometer-which Nash says "looks a bit like a ray gun from an old sci-fi movie"-to take nondestructive surface readings of all 52 sarsens' chemical compositions. Today, destroying intact pieces of Stonehenge is forbidden, Nash says, but because it has already been removed, the Phillips core gave them a unique opportunity for analysis. When the Phillips core re-emerged in 2018, David Nash, an archaeologist and geographer at the University of Brighton, and colleagues knew they finally had the missing piece they needed to pinpoint the sarsens' origins. office for years before he took it with him when he retired to Florida. Phillips took the drilled-out core as a souvenir it hung in his U.K. So they cut a hole through it and pinned it with a metal bolt to reinforce it. When the workers lifted one of them, Stone 58, they realized it was cracked. In 1958, Phillips was part of a crew contracted to re-erect three massive blocks that had toppled more than 100 years earlier at Stonehenge. After all, Stonehenge's smaller "bluestones"-which lie at its center and have been much more intensively studied than the sarsens- traveled some 150 kilometers from various sites around Wales.Įnter the Phillips core. Others have pointed out that the monument's mysterious masons weren't necessarily sticklers for convenience. For centuries, most researchers have assumed the stones came from the closest major boulder field, some 25 to 30 kilometers north of the site in a region called the Marlborough Downs. The monument includes 52 massive, 25-ton silica stones known as sarsens. Knowing the stones' origin could reveal future excavation sites in the region, shedding light on the ancient stoneworkers who constructed these mysterious monuments.īeginning around 3000 B.C.E., Stonehenge was built up over hundreds of years as a ceremonial spot by people hailing from what today is Wales. It's "a quality piece of work," says Richard Bevins, a geologist and Stonehenge researcher at the National Museum Cardiff. Now, archaeologists working with the so-called Phillips core have all but conclusively shown that the famed monument's largest building blocks came from a forest about 25 kilometers away, confirming a long-standing hypothesis. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.As Robert Phillips neared his 90th birthday, the former diamond cutter decided to return a priceless piece of history to the United Kingdom: a 91-centimeter-long cylinder of rock from the heart of Stonehenge. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.
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