The Forbidden Kingdom.
The Adelaide River site of the once welcoming ancient people.
Today, 4th February 2020, Richard Patterson rediscovered the Forbidden Kingdom. It is grouping of massive stone arrangements that is the size of small town within the Adelaide River district. About 100km south-east pf Darwin and 26 kilometers south of the town of Adelaide River. The stones are in an area of 10 times larger than Australia's Stonehenge near Byron Bay.
The outcrops of rocks near Darwin are slow reaching on foot because of the sometimes chest high spinifex grass on a gently undulating flatland of red ochre soil. Around the stones grow short palms that give off an opal-like sheen on their leaves. The seem to emerge unaccountably over a large area on relative flat surrounding terrain.
The Forbidden Kingdom is situated within walking distance of hidden natural hot springs, which dot the region. The springs, ten-thousand years earlier would have been venting steam at geothermically superheated temperatures. The springs would have been ideal sustainable energy and water source for a sufficiently technologically sophisticated people.
The structure is made predominately from large segments of stone blocks about 1.2m high and 1.4m wide. Each would weigh about 2,000 kilograms. These images are of a smaller outcrop of stones adjacent to a superstructure in which some of the most of the the dozens of close stone pediments are 10 meters high and made up of 3 or 5 of these stone blocks apparently stacked upon each other. There are as many as 800 stones in a region of 2 square kilometers.
The outcrops of rocks near Darwin are slow reaching on foot because of the sometimes chest high spinifex grass on a gently undulating flatland of red ochre soil. Around the stones grow short palms that give off an opal-like sheen on their leaves. The seem to emerge unaccountably over a large area on relative flat surrounding terrain.
The Forbidden Kingdom is situated within walking distance of hidden natural hot springs, which dot the region. The springs, ten-thousand years earlier would have been venting steam at geothermically superheated temperatures. The springs would have been ideal sustainable energy and water source for a sufficiently technologically sophisticated people.
The structure is made predominately from large segments of stone blocks about 1.2m high and 1.4m wide. Each would weigh about 2,000 kilograms. These images are of a smaller outcrop of stones adjacent to a superstructure in which some of the most of the the dozens of close stone pediments are 10 meters high and made up of 3 or 5 of these stone blocks apparently stacked upon each other. There are as many as 800 stones in a region of 2 square kilometers.
This rock formation was pointed out to Patterson by a brother who knew of it. The local lore that original people shunn this as an evil place and forbidden to be entered. Patterson is not a scientist and cannot very whether the stones natural or man made but that the are incredibly worn with age and appear to be millions of years old.
If these stones are the ruins of a human-made structure that is extremely ancient correlate it would match a growing belief that First Nations People were living in settlements in Australia for many hundreds of thousands of years.
If these stones are proved to be part of a wider narrative in which they are the old foundation stones to an ancient place built to welcome travellers from overseas, it could strengthen the new claims about another stone arrangement with a similar function, Australia's Stonehenge in Far North Coast of New South Wales.
If these stones are the ruins of a human-made structure that is extremely ancient correlate it would match a growing belief that First Nations People were living in settlements in Australia for many hundreds of thousands of years.
If these stones are proved to be part of a wider narrative in which they are the old foundation stones to an ancient place built to welcome travellers from overseas, it could strengthen the new claims about another stone arrangement with a similar function, Australia's Stonehenge in Far North Coast of New South Wales.