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Using the most effective archaeological tool available today (LiDAR), we can peel back the landscape to show how it used to look and reveal the lost Island of Avalon.
Avalon, literally meaning “the isle of fruit [or apple] trees”; sometimes written Avallon or Avilion) is a legendary island featured in the Arthurian legend. It first appears in Geoffre...
Introduction
Traditional archaeology has long struggled to explain the function of the Stonehenge Avenue. As a result, it has been variously described as ceremonial, symbolic, or a natural feature later adopted by monument builders. None of these explanations withstands close scrutiny once the physical evidence is examined in full.
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Introduction
Durrington Walls has long been treated as a problem site. Despite decades of excavation, reinterpretation, and popular retelling, it has never settled comfortably into any single explanatory model. It is alternately described as a village, a ritual aggregation centre, a ceremonial counterpart to Stonehenge, or a symbolic landscape with...
1. Introduction — Why This Debate Exists at All
The problem with prehistoric archaeology is not a lack of data.It is a failure to ask the right questions.
For over a century, monuments such as Stonehenge, Avebury, and the great long barrows of Britain have been explained using labels: Neolithic, Beaker, Bronze Age, Wester...
For a very long time, Britain’s great dykes have been explained in a simple way.They are usually described as Saxon or early medieval boundaries, built by kings to mark territory or defend land. Names like Offa’s Dyke or Danes’ Dyke reinforce that idea, and because the names ...
