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New book probes Stonehenge secrets

A NEW book that delves into the secrets of Stonehenge is being published soon.

Anthony Johnson, an archaeologist who is also a part time tutor at the University of Oxford, will launch Solving Stonehenge in the next few weeks.

Anthony was first introduced to Stonehenge in the 1970s by Professor Richard Atkinson while studying at University College in Cardiff.

The book is an investigation into the Wiltshire landmark and promises to unearth secrets that have been buried for centuries.

3:41pm Wednesday 26th March 2008

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Posted by: Grant, Marlborough on 4:54pm Wed 26 Mar 08
woopee! Yet another Secret about the old rocks.
How many more?
Posted by: Garry Denke, Plano, Texas, USA on 6:28pm Wed 26 Mar 08
Unearth the Secrets!

A303 / A344 / A360 Stonehenge Improvement Programme

With Stonehenge Solved, when is the Highways Agency going to the Avenue Banks to withdraw the Construction Funds from the Heelstone Vault, any time soon?

Stonehenge Solved Tunnels Names:
A303 Stonehenge Tunnel Name - The Pagan Tunnel
A344 Stonehenge Tunnel Name - The Druid Tunnel
A360 Stonehenge Tunnel Name - The Wiccan Tunnel

Stonehenge Solved Tunnels Lengths:
The Pagan at Stonehenge - 5.5 kilometres (3.4 miles)
The Druid at Stonehenge - 3.0 kilometres (1.9 miles)
The Wiccan at Stonehenge - 1.5 kilometres (1.0 miles)

Stonehenge Solved Visitor Centre Name:
Airman's Corner Stonehenge Visitor Centre

There are Three (3) Tunnels to dig (The Pagan, The Druid, and The Wiccan) and an Airman's Corner Stonehenge Visitor Centre to build by the 2012 Olympics.

Unearth the Secrets!
Posted by: Garry Denke, Plano, Texas, USA on 8:50pm Wed 26 Mar 08
Grant wrote:
woopee! Yet another Secret about the old rocks. How many more?
The Seven Secrets of Stonehenge

1st Secret — gold Mercy Seat is beneath Heel Stone
2nd Secret — gold Ark of the Testimony is beneath Heel Stone
3rd Secret — gold Table for the Shewbread is beneath Heel Stone
4th Secret — gold Candlestick is beneath Heel Stone
5th Secret — gold Ephod is beneath Heel Stone
6th Secret — gold Breastplate is beneath Heel Stone
7th Secret — gold Altar of Incense is beneath Heel Stone

Hell Its all in The Book

A TEXAS TYCOON
Garry Denke
Posted by: Grant, Marlborough on 1:43am Thu 27 Mar 08
see your therapist Denke!
Your mad
Posted by: walter, wilshur on 5:34am Thu 27 Mar 08
What they never tell you is that they found a pair of welly boots and a donkey-jacket with "Bloggs the Builders" on the back, carbon-dated to 3,500 years ago.
Posted by: Garry Denke, Plano, Texas, USA on 11:30am Thu 27 Mar 08
Grant wrote:
see your therapist Denke! Your mad
Ich Denke "You're mad"" Grant Marlborough. Der französische Philosoph und Mathematiker René Descartes beginnt seinen berühmt gewordenen Ausspruch zwar auch mit der Feststellung "Ich Denke", doch er sagt dies nicht um weiterzusprechen, sondern um seine Existenz zu begründen ("also bin ich"). Nun scheint zu gelten: "Ich spreche, also Denke ich", ohne zu wissen, wie Denken im Kopf abläuf. Ich Denke "You're mad" Grant Marlborough "Your mad".
Posted by: walter, wilshur on 1:41pm Thu 27 Mar 08
Garry Denke wrote:
Grant wrote: see your therapist Denke! Your mad
Ich Denke "You're mad"" Grant Marlborough. Der französische Philosoph und Mathematiker René Descartes beginnt seinen berühmt gewordenen Ausspruch zwar auch mit der Feststellung "Ich Denke", doch er sagt dies nicht um weiterzusprechen, sondern um seine Existenz zu begründen ("also bin ich"). Nun scheint zu gelten: "Ich spreche, also Denke ich", ohne zu wissen, wie Denken im Kopf abläuf. Ich Denke "You're mad" Grant Marlborough "Your mad".
No, he's not mad. He's totally insane.
Posted by: Garry Denke, Plano, Texas, USA on 1:49pm Thu 27 Mar 08
walter wrote:
What they never tell you is that they found a pair of welly boots and a donkey-jacket with "Bloggs the Builders" on the back, carbon-dated to 3,500 years ago.
Tesco Entertainment lorries plan to deliver Anthony Johnson's book to Stonehenge Carpark by the hundreds (100s) per day from their Andover Airfield (Penton Corner) warehouse "MegaShed" building, so there will be no Tesco Entertainment worries of Solving Stonehenge availability.

ISBN-13: 9780500051559
ISBN-10: 0500051550
Title: Solving Stonehenge
Subtitle: The Key to an Ancient Enigma
Author: Johnson, Anthony
Publisher: Norton, Thames & Hudson
Subject: Europe - Great Britain - General
Genre: History - Archaeology
Publication Date: 20080519, 20080615
Illustrations: 135 illustrations, 35 in colour
Dimensions: 10 x 7 in
Grade Level: General/Trade
Language: English
Binding: Hardback
Pages: 288

http://www.tesco.com
/books/product.aspx?
R=9780500051559&bci=
433%7CArchaeology*12
%7C%C2%A310%20to%20%
C2%A320*23%7CComing%
20Soon
Posted by: Anthony Johnson, Oxford UK on 6:56pm Thu 27 Mar 08
Remember that what people say, such as ‘Secret, of the Stones’ isn’t under the control of the author, I’m impressed that you want make claims regarding my book, but lets wait and see what other have to say, it’s a bit early yet, you may even be wrong who knows? http://www.solvingst
onehenge.co.uk may help.
Posted by: Grant, Marlborough on 11:23pm Thu 27 Mar 08
"promises to unearth secrets that have been buried for centuries."
Really?
I seriousaly doubt it.
Yet another theory with serious flaws.
The sarsen ring was never complete. stone 29 could not have held a lintel, and the Aubrey holes never held posts according to Atkinson.
Posted by: Anthony Johnson, Oxford UK on 3:30am Fri 28 Mar 08
Stone 29 could never have held a lintel? You must use a unique numbering system; and Atkinson was my professor, did you ever actually talk to him about the Aubrey holes? I did.
Posted by: Garry Denke, Plano, Texas, USA on 3:49am Fri 28 Mar 08
Unearth the Secrets!

Solving Stonehenge with a New 'Secret, of the Stones' in The Book Grant is that "white stone" circling the Heelstone. It has a new name; Early Carboniferous (Arundian Age) High Tor Limestone; being the lower-half Heelstone Ditch "white stone" backfill. Auger cored by Denke in 1656, excavated by Hawley and Newall in 1923, excavated by Atkinson in 1953, excavated by Atkinson, Piggott and Stone in 1956, and excavated by Pitts and Howard in 1979; the Heelstone Ditch "white stone" fossil species New names in The Book Grant are; Aclisina, Aviculopecten, Bellerophon, Caninia cornucopiae, Chondrites, Cleiothyridina roissyi, Composita, Conocardium, Delepinea (Daviesiella) destinezi, Euphemites, Girvanella, Hapsiphyllum (Zaphrentis) konincki, Linoproductus, Megachonetes papilionaceous, Michelina grandis, Mourlonia, Murchisonia, Palaeosmilia, Plicochonetes, Rhipidomella michelini, Schellwienella cf. S. crenistria, Straparollus, Syringopora, and Zoophycos. Of course the upper-half Heelstone Ditch 'backfill' is the silted-in periglacial cryoturbated Late Cretaceous (Santonian Age) Seaford Chalk having different fossil species Old names; Nevertheless; the Author is correct in Solving Stonehenge with a New 'Secret, of the Stones' in The Book Grant.

Unearth the Secrets!
Posted by: Garry Denke, Plano, Texas, USA on 10:50am Fri 28 Mar 08
Anthony Johnson wrote:
Stone 29 could never have held a lintel? You must use a unique numbering system; and Atkinson was my professor, did you ever actually talk to him about the Aubrey holes? I did.
"Solving Stonehenge: The Key to an Ancient Enigma (Hardcover)"

Amazon.com made New 'Subtitle' error.
Stonewall Grant solution to problem.

http://www.amazon.co
m/Solving-Stonehenge
-Key-Ancient-Enigma/
dp/0500051550
Posted by: Anthony Johnson, Oxford UK on 11:07am Fri 28 Mar 08
What a fantastic exchange of opinion we have here, Grant thinks Gary is mad, but in fact if you read between the lines he’s only quoting, albeit in his own remarkable style, from the myriad of mostly absurd claims made for Stonehenge, at least he’s read the literature. But for the benefit of readers who may be confused I would also point that Grant is also correct in raising two contentious points. The Aubrey Holes were indeed originally considered not to have held posts. However a major review of the evidence published by English Heritage in 1995 supports the idea that they originally located timber uprights, the finer details of the archaeological evidence cannot be effectively summarised here.

The second point is equally interesting, was the circle of lintels ever complete? The argument that it was not rests largely on the idea that the broken and leaning sarsen stone 11 (not stone 29 quoted above) of the Circle, is too narrow to have supported lintels. If that were true we then need to explain why the two neighbouring stones (10, still upright, and the fallen stone 12), both have pairs of tenons, which at the very least suggests that lintels were intended to have carried across all three.

There are many other interesting aspects to consider, and much overlooked detail, if we really want to move on its time to break the loop of fact by repetition. And I stress again that the phrases such as ‘unearth the secrets’ are popular journalistic labels, made up to attract, what you might call ‘a wider audience’, readers won’t argue with the fact that they certainly do that!

Posted by: Grant, Marlborough on 2:19pm Fri 28 Mar 08
Anthony Johnson wrote:
Stone 29 could never have held a lintel? You must use a unique numbering system; and Atkinson was my professor, did you ever actually talk to him about the Aubrey holes? I did.
oops. Sorry. You are correct in saying it is stone 11.
Yes I did meet Atkinson in his later years before he died of cancer.
Atkinsons record for publishing his findings were appaling.
Most of his Silbury work was useless.
As to EH changing their minds about the function of the aubrey holes well I'm sure they will change again if they ever get around to excavating the remaing holes.
I took part in the Stonehenge live 2005 that Mike Pitts organised where they built a foam henge.
Mike put a wooden lintel above stone 11 (which is not broken, only small) but I didn't buy his idea either.

Posted by: Garry Denke, Plano, Texas, USA on 3:50pm Fri 28 Mar 08
The trick is 5,000 years old...

National Treasure, the 2004 adventure film from Walt Disney Pictures about a search for lost treasure, involved stealing the Declaration of Independence signed by "Fifty-five in iron pen". Solving Stonehenge: The New Key to an Ancient Enigma, the 2008 compassing and straight-edging of "Fifty-six in accurate circle", proves Fifty-six signed the Declaration of Independence. Edouard Rene de Laboulaye, intellectual creator of the Statue of Liberty, the Knights Templar and the Freemasons also used simple square and circle geometry revealing "Fifty-six in iron pen". Walt Disney Pictures script writers learned -while striking- the 'Aubrey Holes' discovered by Lt.-Col. William Hawley and draughted by Robert Newall actually totaled Fifty-six in number, not Fifty-five. HA wants to kill The Pagan (5.5 km), The Druid (3.0 km), and The Wiccan (1.5 km) again, History teaches it will take a Spirited National Treasure Sequel in Hawley and Newall terms to resurrect them.

Spirited National Treasure Sequel of Stone Hedge

1st Spirited Secret — golden Mercy Seat under Hele Stone
2nd Spirited Secret — golden Ark of the Covenant under Hele Stone
3rd Spirited Secret — golden Table of Manna under Hele Stone
4th Spirited Secret — golden Candlestick under Hele Stone
5th Spirited Secret — golden Girdle under Hele Stone
6th Spirited Secret — golden Breastplate under Hele Stone
7th Spirited Secret — golden Altar of Incense under Hele Stone

Fifty-six in iron pen, Mr. Matlack can't offend
The Secret Lies With 56 Circle
Silence Dogood

http://www.wwco.com/
hobbs/matlack.htm
Posted by: Garry Denke, Plano, Texas, USA on 5:06pm Fri 28 Mar 08
walter wrote:
Garry Denke wrote:
Grant wrote: see your therapist Denke! Your mad
Ich Denke "You're mad"" Grant Marlborough. Der französische Philosoph und Mathematiker René Descartes beginnt seinen berühmt gewordenen Ausspruch zwar auch mit der Feststellung "Ich Denke", doch er sagt dies nicht um weiterzusprechen, sondern um seine Existenz zu begründen ("also bin ich"). Nun scheint zu gelten: "Ich spreche, also Denke ich", ohne zu wissen, wie Denken im Kopf abläuf. Ich Denke "You're mad" Grant Marlborough "Your mad".
No, he's not mad. He's totally insane.
Yep

The 56-sided polygon is said to belong to Typhon,
as Eudoxus (Greek astronomer) reported,
high moon every 19+18+19 years.

Bye
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