you don’t understand the magnitude of what you are asking for.
D’oh. I still believe you, I just wanted to see pics!
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it is hard to see on camera, but sheephenge is there. (don’t watch the whole thing, it’s boring :D)
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It’s a “ritual” structure. Duh.
I think they had to move it, because in Wales it was in danger of being crushed by a dwarf.
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Have you been to Avebury? I love it that the entire village is built within a stone circle and that it’s survived so well in spite of that. I’ve been fascinated by it ever since I saw the incredibly creepy Children of the Stones on Nickelodeon oh those many years ago.
i love avebury. it is an amazing place, and waay more impressive than sheephenge.
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Hey. No baaaaaadmouthing sheephenge.
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oh good, nothing too embarassing, and more than half the music was us (sorry for those that think I am in Future Sound of London)
Yes, but what kind of ritual? Were they set up to facilitate ritual astrology/divination, spring fertility rites, or the ritual slaughter of the old king and crowning of the new one? These nuances matter! It’s just as unthinkable to cut the old king’s throat in a stone circle designed for the annual fertility orgy, as it is unthinkable to do astrological divination atop a stone sanctified to the purpose of king-beheading.
- They got carbon dates from both quarries, both were centuries before the dates of the placing of the stones at Stonehenge (which we have from organic stuff found in the holes dug for the stones in question, multiple tests on multiple items so it’s pretty solid).
- These weren’t quarries where you’d go to get a load of gravel for your new barn foundation, they were specifically quarries for megaliths. Not exactly a booming business, more a “dig out the X stones we need for the new temple and then go home”
- It’s not like you’re going to quarry a bunch of 10 ton rocks and then put them in a storage locker until you need them. If they were dug up before they were needed at Stonehenge, then they were needed for something else somewhere else. Finding that place may be tricky - the article quoted an archaeologist who thought halfway between the two quarries would be where the stones were initially set up, but I am very dubious.
If these neolithic Britons were willing to jackass those rocks 100+ miles from Wales to the Stonehenge site, then logically the initial destination of the rocks could have been anywhere between the quarries in Wales and Stonehenge. Odds of finding the site except by accident: pretty darn low.
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Okay, maybe I’m wrong. Maybe there is no other possible explanation.
Wait, what? Is this like Fintroll, but from the Archers, yes? Egad.
Long Meg and her Daughters is the nearest thing like that to me. Doesn’t look like much, but it’s just sitting on a farm in Northumberland. Nice place.
Glad to see you’ve replaced the ageing Guardian’s “second-hand” with this century’s preferred term.
Ikea has too many vowels for Wales.
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Aliens.
The Welsh set up the henge in Wales. Aliens took it for a test drive and crashed it into Wiltshire. The Welsh didn’t want to come and get it so the English impounded it.
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