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Anonymous
User not Registered |  Posted 26-02-2005 at 06:27
thanks for all your replies,ican only say that these places are special to me in some way,perhaps expectancy does have something to do with it because i do like old worldy things in general.i think that maybe these places hold some form of escape from the crazyness of our modern world and i like to think that they hold some kind of power from a lost age,hey we all need to dream! i think the real magic of these places lies in the fact that the true purpose of these places is lost in the ancient past and that gives us a little mystery in our lives,and everyone loves a mystery! so i thank you good people for your comments,live long and prosper!! 
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| Posted 26-02-2005 at 22:34
One interesting thing from all these replies is that a lot of people comment that the sites are "out of the way." Is it because they were erected out of the way or they survived because they were out of the way? ie those sites "in the way" have been destroyed.
An example of this is The Vale of Glamorgan where I live.There are existing sites but as this area is very agriculturally productive,I often wonder how many have been totally obliterated.
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PS Jim.When I wrote "Satanic crap etc" I meant no offence or disrespect to you.I was simply referring to the fact that Satan hadn't been invented when the circles were erected.
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wayland
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| Posted 26-02-2005 at 23:59
It's like the Americans at Windsor Castle asking why they built it so close to the airport.
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| Posted 01-03-2005 at 22:49
Sites survived because they are "out of the way". Remember that the whole country was thickly wooded in the stone age, and the lowland (where we all live these days) wasn't cleared until agriculture became established. I am impressed by places like Dartmoor, where you can stand and not see another human for hours, that have a wealth of pre-historic sites.
A related thought: imagine you lived in Avebury about 200 years ago. You would probably live your whole life without travelling more than a few miles from the village. Would the stones seem special to you then, given that you'd never known anything different? No wonder farmers plundered the megaliths for building materials, or just removed them because they were in the way.
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| Posted 01-03-2005 at 23:08
Good point, Jim. Years ago, I knew an old Wiltshire countryman who was nearly ninety. He couldn't understand why I was going to visit Stonehenge and Avebury.
"Them be jest a lot of owld stownes in a field, boy!" he said in astonishment. The old timers didn't destroy stones out of vandalism (except the religious bigots) They just broke them up and moved them out of the way because they had to plough the land - for food. From their point of view - what use was a field full of dirty great boulders?
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