tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5787185370858787658.post2196069174920130731..comments2024-01-30T06:35:10.103+00:00Comments on www.Sarsen.org: Durrington Walls Palisade Enclosure -the 1952 excavations.Tim Dawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10667360714222841797noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5787185370858787658.post-32545865082946033242021-07-15T10:40:04.690+01:002021-07-15T10:40:04.690+01:00A late comment.
Tim thanks for posting this. Altho...A late comment.<br />Tim thanks for posting this. Although these excavations are covered in the Wainwright and Longworth Durrington volume there are no plans and sections and there is more detail here, the plans add so much. <br />“There is still a lot to learn from old reports which are too often left unread in search for the new.” I can’t find reference to these post holes and hollows in the 2 Parker Pearson books but they were published before the 2016 excavations that proved the existence of a palisade of large timbers (rather than stones) under the southern bank and possibly the whole bank circuit at Durrington. As you suggest this double post alignment and shallow pit arrangement appears even more relevant looking at its proximity to those relatively short- lived large posts and the houses that probably preceded those on that circuit. They must have belonged to the same consecutive periods.<br />The posts, not a revetment for the bank, too close together to walk in between as a processional way. The henge discovered in 2018 near Woodbridge in Suffolk came to mind which had a preserved timber walkway in the centre following the course of a spring to a timber platform. No spring here but were the pits important, were they the source of chalk for the house floors? The rectangular arrangement of posts thought originally to be a possible rectangular house, was that a platform?<br />Not considering the old in pursuit of the new, looking at the recent BBC Stonehenge the Lost Circle even the fairly recent with good evidence for is discarded, as with West Amesbury henge and probable stone circle, no mention and Durrington is represented late on in the programme by a dull digital interpretation with so many strangely incorrect details. No timber circles, no avenue, a vague ditch and bank at the same time as a mass of round (yes round) houses descend from through the air into the centre of the henge. Complete misinformation, Why? There is already masses of evidence and still fascinating details to piece together and interpret as in this post, perhaps it is easier and requires less thought to produce a load of tosh. <br />Someone did produce some reconstructions of Durrington not too long ago probably more accurate than this I can’t remember who it was.<br />Best<br />Peter Dunn<br />Peter Dunnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05417233316425767843noreply@blogger.com