The Stonehenge Landscape in 3D | Wessex Archaeology

The Stonehenge Landscape in 3D | Wessex Archaeology

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We have recently finished creating a short animation for the exhibition “Making History: Antiquaries In Britain, 1707–2007” at the Royal Academy in London. The three minute video demonstrates “Stonehenge revealed through digital technologies”.

It incorporates a fly-through of the Stonehenge landscape in 3D, based upon Environment Agency LIDAR (airborne 3D scanning) data, high resolution panoramas, and a new animation of the prehistoric dagger and axe carvings on Stone 53 at Stonehenge itself, from data collected by Archaeoptics Ltd.

A stunning aerial view, putting the sacred landscape in context. I'd prefer it to be a bit less stylized and geometric, and the yellowish tint is somewhat off-putting, but those are minor quibbles about what presumably are limitations of the technique they are using.

Stonehenge vandalized

Suspected souvenir hunters broke into Stonehenge and vandalised the ancient monument, English Heritage has said.

A hammer and screwdriver were used to take a small chip the size of a 10p piece from the side of the Heel Stone.

English Heritage said further damage was prevented by security guards who spotted the two men at the 5,000-year-old site in Wiltshire.

Police believe the vandals could be the same two people caught on CCTV acting suspiciously a few days earlier.


BBC article

At one time, chisels would be handed to people visiting Stonehenge, so they could chip away at the ancient monument to get their own souvenirs.


But the practice has been outlawed since 1900, when landowner Sir Edmund Antrobus decided the site needed protecting and introduced charges


Further BBC commentary

Manhattanhenge: A New York Sunset

Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) shows the sun setting straight down the middle of 34th Street, as it does twice a year.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070713.html

Fridgehenge Put on Ice

Fridgehenge, the Santa Fe, New Mexico version of Stonehenge which is made out of 100 refrigerators, is being taken down due to safety concerns. The steel circle was created a decade ago by Adam Horowitz.

The Fortean Times blog links to a Flickr page with some lovely, evocative images of Fridgehenge in better days.

I found myself wishing that Horowitz left a fridge powered up. When you opened the door on the solstice you'd find a trilithon hanging down inside it that would neatly frame the fridge light, as a sort of fractal Stonehenge. Maybe have a pound of Land O' Lakes butter on the door?

http://www.forteantimes.com/blogs/editorial-blogs/news/915325/fridgehenge-dismantled.thtml

Thanks to The Daily Grail