5th October 2009, 12:09 PM
whoopt de do... I am on my way with my stargate hat on 
this just in
this just in
Quote:A message from the Directors of the Stonehenge Riverside Project 2009.
Bluestonehenge has been kept under wraps because one of the funders is the National Geographic Society. A condition of their grant is that publicity announcements have to go through them. So Mike Parker Pearson and the rest of the Stonehenge Riverside Team (this year's co-directors were Josh Pollard, Julian Thomas and Kate Welham) are pretty stuck about what to do with the breaking story until National Geographic's planned press release. They were hoping that the announcement could wait until after radiocarbon dating, to
see how it actually related to Stonehenge.
The reason the Daily Mail has no quotes from any of the team is that they've got the story by other means; perhaps the journalist was one of the many members of the public given a site tour of the excavation.
Mike hopes to get Nat Geo to allow the team to speak directly about this season's results, now that the story has broken. But it's a weekend so it may have to wait until Monday morning Washington DC time! Please don't be grumpy about Nat Geo - if they hadn't funded the excavation, it would never have happened.
For really I think that the poorest he that is in England hath a life to live, as the greatest he
Thomas Rainborough 1647
Thomas Rainborough 1647