An Age of Magic

Stonehenge - riddle solved at last !

The riddle of Stonehenge, that amazing puzzle that has truly captured the imagination of historians and scientists for many centuries, may finally have been solved. But how…?

Archaeologists have new evidence that the monument was built as a cemetery for influential Stone Age Britons and could even have been the burial ground for a long forgotten prehistoric royal family. The findings come from the first radiocarbon dating of charred human teeth and bones discovered at the site in the 1950s.

The detailed tests show that the bones were buried about 3000BC - the same time that Stonehenge was being created on England’s Salisbury Plain. The puzzle of Stonehenge has deeply intrigued historians for just on 2,000 years. More is known about the origins of the Moon than the world’s most famous stone circle.  Little is known about the human creators of Stonehenge - possibly farmers living at the end of the stone age and the start of the Bronze Age era’s.  They lived in villages made from wattle and ’clay’ houses - a mixture of chalk, plaster and used pottery.

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