Avebury - Phase 2 (Main Henge) LiDAR Investigation

Описание: Avebury Phase Two – A Prehistoric Harbour Hidden in Plain Sight | Langdon Investigates

In this week's deep-dive, Robert John Langdon returns to Avebury, not to talk spirits or rituals — but water, logic, and LiDAR. Picking up from Phase One (Windmill Hill), this episode explores how Avebury’s vast ditches weren’t mystical moats or cattle corrals, but functional docking channels for Mesolithic boats.

Using LiDAR terrain models and British Geological Survey evidence, Robert shows how rising and falling water levels from the post-glacial melt shaped Avebury into a working river port — not a ceremonial oddity. He also reveals tapered bank constructions and evidence of water channels that archaeologists have missed or ignored.

🚫 No evil spirits.
🛶 Just smart engineering, adaptable design, and a prehistoric economy that floated.

Key Points Covered:

Avebury as a river-facing site tied to the Kennet

Gigantic ditches used as mooring channels

Bank tapering explained by water flow, not erosion

Water table logic: deeper ditches to chase the receding groundwater

The inconvenient truth that the 12-meter-deep ditch still fills with water — and why modern archaeology keeps dodging that fact

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