Stonehenge - Cracking the Megalithic Code

By David Kenworthy

Stonehenge is an enigma. Its secrets continue to elude modern archaeologists. However, only forty years ago the designs were almost uncovered. Scientists with impeccable credentials wrote best-selling books and made TV documentaries revealing astonishing theories. It was an astronomical observatory. It was built by prehistoric Einsteins who understood Pythagorean triangles incorporating these into the design using a constant unit of measurement. They were highly organised surveyors, engineers, scientists and theologians. Scientists at the time produced compelling evidence to support these findings. Now they are virtually unknown. This book investigates further with very surprising results. The elusive code is now almost cracked.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Brown Dog
• Release date: Oct 29, 2014
• ISBN: 9781903056882

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Preface

The author was a qualified FCCA accountant before retirement and worked as an auditor so crunching numbers is second nature. This book is not excessively numeric but many hours of numerical modelling and testing theories have been invested in this work.

Many works on Stonehenge are grossly complicated, spoiling their effect. All the proposals included in this series of three books are meant to be easily understood and numbers have been excluded wherever possible when explanations will suffice.

This first book includes an explanation for the origin of the mile and lays out the spiritual background for what is to follow in the next two books where it is proposed that the Megalithic code is cracked in Book Two, and the outcomes from cracking the code are in Book Three.

Thanks to my wife Jo and sons Mark (for the artwork) and Matt and Jonny for their full support.

Introduction

The reason for writing this book

Retirement came in July 2013 and having worked for over forty years the shock of losing the regular routine translated itself in many directions. Camping holidays with the children all over the UK had left many memories but none was as evocative as visiting the stone ring at Avebury. It is a magical place, like walking into a medieval cathedral. A random google search on Avebury and Stonehenge started things rolling. ‘Stonehenge Decoded’ came up, a documentary in which Professor Mike Parker Pearson identifies that Megalithic people were extremely mobile, visiting Durrington Walls near Stonehenge from all over the islands, bringing cattle and other animals to be slaughtered for feasting. DNA testing confirmed this finding and also confirmed that the feasts were held at the Midwinter Solstice not the Summer Solstice. The professor concluded that Stonehenge was a place for the ancestors and it had been abandoned shortly after completion. It was the building of the project that had been important, a kind of Megalithic team building exercise. The final conclusion was that we will never know why Stonehenge was built.

My dog was looking at me, expectantly, wagging her tail and trying to give the message it was time for a walk. There are few better walking counties in the UK than Derbyshire and although it was a cold winter day the Sun was shining so off we went up the local Hagg. The views at the top of the Hagg are breathtaking but on that particular day a feeling of irritation and frustration seemed to be taking over. Have you ever had that feeling that something is not quite right and needs fixing but you’re not sure what it is!

At this stage in the proceedings I had never heard of Professor Alexander Thom, or of the Aubrey Circle, or the megalithic yard, or megalithic rod. As I write this introduction now, on the ferry from Poole to Gijon in Northern Spain less than nine months after this journey began, I have learned to think in megalithic units and, like many others, rue the day in 1971 that my beloved country went decimal.

Back to the source of the itch that couldn’t be scratched. It was the documentary and the conclusions reached. Stone for the ancestor’s, wood for the living. A Megalithic team building exercise. Stonehenge was abandoned soon after construction. None of this made sense; what had happened to the astronomical observatory theories of the 1960s and 1970s?

The documentary had finished with the usual hairy, animal skin wearing, tub thumping Megalithic people chanting and waving spears in the air. They really do need a new PR man.

This book has been written in the hope that it might add to our growing perception that our intelligent ancestors have been seriously underrated. The Stonehenge exhibition provides a stunning recreation of a Megalithic man using the latest forensic techniques. If he was standing next to you in the pub you would not bat an eyelid. The exhibition describes Megalithic people as sophisticated and the complexity of their workings in the Amesbury and surrounding areas confirms a highly organised, hardworking, disciplined and spiritual society. It also links Stonehenge to an astronomical as well as a spiritual connection.

This book could not have been written without the painstaking research into Megalithic sites carried out by the late Professor Alexander Thom. His work seems to be largely forgotten by mainstream archaeologists and the reasons for this will be examined later in the book. The professor’s work enables a contact to be made with Megalithic people that crosses the boundaries of time. He epitomised the people he sought to understand for over fifty years of a very productive life. He was an artist, a sailor, a navigator, a statistician, an engineer, a surveyor of the highest quality, a remarkable human being who just went on recording diligently what he found. His books are recommended reading if you can get hold of them. They come up like gold dust on Amazon books and command a very high price and for very good reason. They are the most important macro archaeological books ever completed and provide insights into the existence of Megalithic people that no other books written or to be written will ever manage. In short each book written by Professor Thom is a macro archaeological masterpiece. He has been credited with the title of the first archaeoastronomer but in the context of the work being done by archaeologists today at Amesbury it seems more appropriate to describe him as a macro archaeologist as his work and ideas are not really comparable to the micro archaeological investigations in progress today. He was not interested in the minutiae, he wanted to understand the big picture.

To read this book you must have an open mind and you must picture Megalithic people as being like us but more in tune with their surroundings and more comfortable in their time, and being driven in their need for proof of the existence of the Divine Creator of the Heavens. In this book you will find, a proposal as to why the mile is 5280 feet in length, and a proposal for the design of the greater cursus at Stonehenge. Finally, a new interpretation of the designs of the Stonehenge, Amesbury and Avebury monuments based on the findings of Professor Thom and the proposal that Megalithic people used divine numbers in these designs to reflect their understanding of the heavens.

CHAPTER ONE

The Approach to Cracking the Code

Before describing the approach to cracking the code we need to consider the significance of the Stonehenge Amesbury site. It is one of the most stunning archaeological sites in the UK and is part our national persona. Everyone in the UK knows about Stonehenge from