On 2004-12-26 17:10, Anonymous wrote:
There is an out-of-print book by Rodney Castledon on the Long Man of Wilmington which suggests that the chalk giant there was part of a calendar focussed on a solar event marked by the sun appering between two pylons, a calendar dating to 3900 years BC, a millenium before the SH circle was cut. RC speculated that the giant's staves are predecessors to the solstice markers at Stonehenge, which he argued were two as well.
If I remember correctly, RC suggests that the megalithic culture was a separate culture and Stonehenge was a marriage of cultures, the megalithic culture(s) of the north and west, and the calendar builders of the southeast. It seems likely that the bluestone source Preselis were a local site for a major tribe that brought their sacred temple stones, possibly even moving an existing temple, to contribute to Stonehenge as a multi-tribal project.
I don't know if even Castledon still subscribes to this theory, but I found it compelling.