Durrington Shafts

Picture of Mystery Real X-File ID: 5490

Report Date: 09/11/2020

Country: United Kingdom

Place: Durrington

Fingerprints: Traces of ancient advanced engineering-skills, Traces of ancient advanced technology, Traces of ancient advanced astronomical knowledge, Other unexplained phenomenal occurence

Existing Facts Sources: Pictures that obviously proof advanced engineering-skills or any other anomaly or strange behaviour, Internet article

Summary Report: 

The Durrington Shafts were found 3 km distant from Stonehenge, these huge pits ( 5m deep, 10m diameter) surround the henge enclosure of Durrington Walls. 20 pits have been found so far. It seems they build up a huge ring (2km diameter), not a perfect circle. The dimensions and the relation between the Durrington Shafts and other monuments again show a deep understanding of mathematics and astronomy. These shafts were probably built by the Grooved Ware Culture between 2670 – 2550 B.C. For what purpose? One theory is that the pits could have been sound resonators for low frequency sound ( Durrington Shafts: 10 – 15 Hz). This sound could influence the state of consciousness and could be responsible for paranormal experience. The waves of low frequency sound travel through the earth, could the pits have been used for communication between distant points?

Excerpt from www.ancient-origins.net:
Stonehenge Experiments

Supporting the idea that the ring of pits at Durrington might have functioned as sound resonators is work carried out in 1999 by chartered engineer Rodney Hale in the Stonehenge landscape. At two round barrows (Amesbury 43 & 47) he used an induction coil interacting with the earth’s magnetic field to measure the presence of low frequency activity. Resulting signals were amplified and recorded. Each tumulus was found to produce oscillatory readings showing the constant presence of ultra-low frequency (ULF) sub-audible sound vibrations in the range of 18 Hz in the first tumuli and 11 Hz in the second.* The amplitude of the sound could be increased by stamping on the ground, although Hale suspects that this could be quite easily affected by other factors including wind blowing across the surface of the tumulus.

Stonehenge tumuli vibrations. Waveforms showing ultra-low frequency activity recorded by Rodney Hale during an experiment in 1999 at two round barrows in the Stonehenge landscape. (Image credit: Rodney Hale)

Stonehenge tumuli vibrations. Waveforms showing ultra-low frequency activity recorded by Rodney Hale during an experiment in 1999 at two round barrows in the Stonehenge landscape. (Image credit: Rodney Hale)

Tests showed that the ULF activity was present everywhere on the barrows, yet dropped off sharply around 30 centimeters (a foot) from the edge of the mounds. What these trial tests implied was the existence in each of a large hollow cavity or internal structure easily able to generate sound. Was it possible that other tumuli in the Stonehenge landscape had similar internal structures? Had this been part of their original design, to generate low frequency sound?

The resonant frequency of the pits making up Durrington Shafts was found to be in the range of 10 to 15 Hz, low enough to produce not only very low frequency activity, but also infrasound. This has been linked with everything from the creation of altered states of consciousness in human subjects to a go-to explanation for paranormal experiences such as the feeling of presences and the seeing of ghosts.

ULF activity as well as infrasound has been detected in the underground chambers of the Great Pyramid in Egypt, suggesting that this might have been a factor in the architectural design of such monuments. It should be recalled that the Great Pyramid dates to circa 2600 BC, exactly the same time as Durrington Shafts. That its pits generated a similar frequency range adds weight to the idea that they too acted as sound resonators. If so, then how might this have been amplified? And more importantly, to what end?




Links: https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/durrington-walls-0013949
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrTUUzE0STY


Facts Source Details:
Details of Internet Article:  Andrew Collins,07/07/2020,https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/durrington-walls-0013949


Pictures:

Search Form Objects

Sending