Crowds Gather at Stonehenge for Summer Solstice Sunrise
A STRANGE, ancient structure by the sea that rivals the peculiarity of Stonehenge may have been built for a very British purpose.The Oak beams of "Seahenge" were excavated from Holme-next-the-Sea for research and taken to a museumresearcher Dr David Nance has published new findings, posing an explanation that it was constructed during a period of prolonged
Dr Nance hypothesised that it represented a cage holding in an unfledged cuckoo to keep it singing - and therefore extend summer.: "Dating of the Seahenge timbers showed they were felled in the spring, and it was considered most probable that these timbers were aligned with sunrise on the summer solstice.
“It seems most likely that these monuments had the common intention to end this existential threat but they had different functions.”He said: "Summer solstice was the date when according to folklore the cuckoo, symbolising fertility, traditionally stopped singing, returned to the Otherworld and the summer went with it."Previously, it was thought they marked the death of community members, or were used for bizarre burials where corpses were placed to be pecked at by flesh-feeding birds.
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