HW: the stones have long memories

[Jill Strobridge]

Here's an extract from my recent copy of British Archaeology - November
2003 (it may also be available on the web site but I confess I haven't
checked yet)

"The Stonehenge Laser Show  -  Last summer, late evening passers-by at
Stonehenge might have seen a group of people carrying a strange array of
futuristic-looking boxes, cables and computer equipment towards the
[Stonehenge] monument.  One onlooker peering through the fence, perhaps
noticing the number of long-haired archaeologists, asked if the
Stonehenge festival rock band Hawkwind would be playing among the
stones(!).

It was in fact the beginning of a project to look at the ancient
carvings [using laser scanning technology] run jointly by Wessex
Archaeology and Archaeoptics.  It is the most hi-tech investigation ever
conducted at Stonehenge"

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Jill Strobridge <jill at theta-orionis.freeserve.co.uk>
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