Robert Langdon’s new book The Stonehenge Enigma sheds new light on the evidence found in Stonehenge’s visitors’ car park, which has subsequently been buried for over 40 years. The evidence proves Stonehenge is really 5,000 years older than was believed!
The book has unearthed evidence that has been kept from public scrutiny for over 40 years. Current theories on the discovery of the four post holes in a line found during excavation work on the visitors’ car park in 1966 are simple and dismissive. They are “totem poles”, claim English Heritage in their book Stonehenge in its Landscape, by Cleal et al, 1995.
However, analysis of the claim simply does not stand up to scrutiny. “They are likely to be individual uprights, perhaps reminiscent of those of the American Indians (totem poles).”
The problem is that “totem poles” survive less than 100 years if they are made of hard wood; pine is softwood and rots much quicker. So when one starts to look at the carbon dating evidence on when each post hole was cut, a whole new story emerges.
The first post hole would have been constructed around 8275BC, the second one (next to the first) was erected about 7035BC – some 1,240 years later! By then the first post would have rotted away and the first post hole completely lost.
The third post hole cannot be dated as the charcoal that was found was lost or not processed, which is no surprise as all three samples were stored away for 10 years before some eagle-eyed researcher realised that pine wood did not exist in the late Neolithic (2500BC), which is the original date at which archaeologists claimed these poles were erected (to match the building date of Stonehenge) before packing the samples away into oblivion, without getting them tested.
Yet, another post hole on the same alignment was found in 1989 some 75 metres away from the three original post holes. This was accurately dated to about 7890BC, 385 years after the first post but 855 years before the second.
So English Heritage are asking people to accept that a group of hunter-gatherers went to the Stonehenge site in 8275 BC and placed a “totem pole” in a valley away from the high ground (where Stonehenge sits today), which at that time in history was surrounded by a tall pine forest.
These people then disappeared for about 400 years, returning to place a second “totem pole” 75 yards away from the first, finally to return 855 years later and place a third pole next to the first with the fourth (of unknown date) in an alignment.Moreover, these people left no trace of their 1,200-year occupation of this site until they returned 5,000 years later in 3000 BC to build Stonehenge phase 1.
Why has this absurd theory not received the scrutiny that it deserves? Why was the evidence buried in a vault for 10 years? And why do they still insist that these post holes are “totem poles”?
In his book, Langdon shows that these structures played a more significant role than has previously been believed. Not only does he reveal what these post holes were for, but he also gives a more plausible explanation on what really happened at Stonehenge, including who built the monument, when they built the monument and why they built the monument.