Talk:Durrington Walls

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message: Who is he? The Green Man 20:58, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Don't think we have a wikipage on him yet, but you can find out a bit about him here. Regards Ranger Steve (talk) 13:12, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Geoff Wainwright

message: Saw the Channel 4 documentary on the excavations in 2007. The article still doesn't reflect the discoveries that were made nearly 3 years ago, which is a shame, given the site's importance and the effort that had been put into the article. I could try to update, but I would have to use online reports. Be better if someone with better access could have a go. Folks at 137 (talk) 07:59, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: This article's on my list of things to do... one day.  When I wrote it I wasn't so aware of referencing (although I can vouch all the info has come from the bibliography), so I really need to go through it and drag it up to better quality I think.  It does mention the village, but only briefly. I do want to expand that too when I get the chance.... Real Life is a bit hectic at the moment though! Ranger Steve (talk) 08:08, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Village

message: Please see Wikipedia talk: What Wikipedia is not#Is it promotional in archaeological articles to mention the university leading an excavation?. Doug Weller (talk) 11:47, 7 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is it promotional in archaeological articles to mention the university leading an excavation? 

message: This is very interesting. Some of the new questions raised:
the completion, or not, of the timber circle
if the posts were lifted vertically how they did this, and why?
the dating of raising and dismantling these posts (we await radiocarbon dates for the very handy antler in the posthole fill and the scapula at the bottom of the posthole for this)
the idea that a decision was made to replace the timber circle (complete or not) with a great henge monument
what happened to the timber posts after they were removed?
Doug Weller talk 09:27, 23 August 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Words like "new" quickly become meaningless and shouldn't be used, imo. The official blog is now 4 years old, as of Mar 2022.FangoFuficius (talk) 20:13, 23 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Questions about the new results raised at the official blog 

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message: Should a name be found for this find? My view is that the pits are too irregularly spaced and two few to constitute a monument - this is just an archaeologist's wishful thinking. Durrington Walls were a village and the pits are more or less the same distance from it. I think flint prospecting (how do they compare with Grimes Graves?) should be added to the theories. FangoFuficius (talk) 20:21, 23 March 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: It's not about terminology (can one question be an obsession?) - it's about following a new story and referring to it succinctly, since Stonehenge and its vicinity are riddled with pits and postholes. If you were surveying out from Durrington Walls in search of flint, one strategy might be to walk from the centre 1000 paces in different directions and dig. Calling it a structure is romance. Pyramidiots don't interest me. I prefer the prosaic. FangoFuficius (talk) 21:38, 25 March 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: It's not on us to find a name for the features. If the academic reports use one we can use that, or if the media come up with something there's a case for using that too. But we should reflect what they say, rather than inventing a name ourselves. Ranger Steve Talk 09:32, 26 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  the new pits as of 2020/2021 

message: I would move the Etymology section, or at least most of it, to Durrington, Wiltshire, the village from which the site inherits its name. —Tamfang (talk) 20:34, 5 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  etymology