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<< News >> The final insult - why don't we care about Stonehenge?

Submitted by Nick- on Wednesday, 05 March 2008  Page Views: 3147

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It is our greatest monument, on a par with the pyramids. But soon it will be plagued by Tesco juggernauts. Why don't we care about Stonehenge?

Jonathan Jones writing in the Guardian. The winter light is kind to the stones. Its mild greyness reveals the beauty of the blue lichen that has grown for thousands of years over their surfaces and even, from the right point on the path, lets you see the sinister shape of a bronze-age dagger carved into bleak rock. I'd love to be able to say it's an encounter that leads me far from the modern world into eerie reveries - but that would be a lie.


Read more in the Guardian, also another article about the Tesco megashed.

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Re: The final insult - why don't we care about Stonehenge? by Anonymous on Monday, 10 March 2008
Actually we should care about Stonehenge
Much is still a mystery with this neolithic monument
There are several theories as to its' construction, builders and use(s)
The best one I have come up with is that bluestone which was a feat to transport to Salisbury Plains to begin with had a healing effect on those who were inside its' inner rings
So my theory is that Stonehenge no matter who built it, why they built it was also a sanctuary for the terminal ill and worse
Therefore in addition to being a solar calendar and a megalithic portal our beloved Stonehenge may have also served as a sacred necropolis
Changing or refacing these massive stones may erase timeless evidence and their mystical power that could be analyzed in place or in small amounts by blokes who bloody well know what they're doing and care about builders' history and beyond
iceman
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Re: The Stonehenge Sentinel / Skeleton could hold secret to Stonehenge by Aluta on Friday, 07 March 2008
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I've begun to suspect that Stonehenge and the pyramids were built for the explicit purpose of generating large quantities of bonkers, no, make that extraordinary, theories for people like me who especially enjoy them. :o)
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    Re: The Stonehenge Sentinel / Skeleton could hold secret to Stonehenge by TheCaptain on Sunday, 09 March 2008
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    That's one of the best theories yet Aluta !
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    Re: The Function of Stonehenge by Aluta on Monday, 10 March 2008
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    After many millennia, it continues to perform brilliantly!
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Re: The Stonehenge Sentinel / Skeleton could hold secret to Stonehenge by Anonymous on Friday, 07 March 2008
this idea carries more weight than the new windmill theory which is just plain bonkers!
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The Stonehenge Sentinel / Skeleton could hold secret to Stonehenge by Andy B on Wednesday, 05 March 2008
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More on Stonehenge; Dennis Price's latest emission:

A skeleton which has been on prominent display in Salisbury Museum for nearly a decade, could hold the secret to Stonehenge's mysterious past and show the site to be an arena of gladiatorial combat, Dennis Price has claimed.

The skeleton, that of a man who had been killed by arrows in 2,300 BC, was discovered in the ditch surrounding the stones during excavation work, carried out by Professor Richard Atkinson and J.G Evans in 1978.

http://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/salisbury/salisburynews/display.var.2093945.0.skeleton_could_hold_secret_to_stonehenge.php
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