The monuments created thousands of years ago in what is now known as the Outer Hebrides have stunned researchers and history fans for decades. Traces of a massive lightning strike or smaller ones might give scientists a clue as to the origins of this enigmatic creation.
A team of researchers from the University of St Andrews and the University of Bradford has stumbled upon the evidence of a massive magnetic anomaly near one of the Outer Hebrides’ main stone circles, known as the Tursachan Chalanais, located on the Isle of Lewis.
Studying the nearby satellite sites in the search for lost circles concealed in the peat, they noted the abnormality near Site XI, or Airigh na Beinne Bige, with a lone-standing stone facing the main site. They suggested that this is the result of a massive lighting strike or many smaller strikes, as the outlet Phys.org reports.
According to the researcher, this “evidence suggests that the forces of nature could have been intimately linked with everyday life and beliefs of the early farming communities on the island.”
According to his colleague, such discoveries are very rare.
In their hunt for the lost monuments, the researchers managed to virtually recreate the stone circles at the University of St Andrews School of Computer Science and see what this area looked like 4,000 years ago.
The team’s work will not end there as they are planning to return to the island in 2020 to conduct further research on land as well as in the waters that are now concealing the old landscape as a result of the rise in sea levels.
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