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I just came across your comments. (I Googled - moat around Stonehenge, and this was topmost).
I have a stock photo of Stonehenge as my computer laptop main image. Sometimes I look at it more carefully, as I did today. Which caused me to wonder about "the moat"... so I did an Internet search about it.
I Always assumed it was a Water moat... and I never even heard about the dry-ditch theory on this. But the dry-ditch (dry moat) theory doesn't make sense really.
Whatever Stonehenge's original purpose was, either a Star Gazing structure or an intentional place of Ritual and Worship... it was a place where people gathered, openly, in Nature... which made them vulnerable to animals and predators. If nothing else, a Water Moat would have enabled people to Star Gaze and, or, Worship with a greatly reduced concern about animals attacking them while they were praying, meditating or gazing skyward. Wild animals would have mostly stayed away from the structure and wouldn't have been inclined to cross the water moat. The Water moat would have helped keep Stonehenge free of animals even if people weren't constantly guarding the stones. And the sound of any creature crossing the Water Moat would have alerted astronomers and worshippers of approaching visitors or enemies.
In my image of Stonehenge, there is a "Path," as it were, that seems to have been a submerged bridge (of packed earth possibly?) through the Moat, leading from the outside of the moat and sloping up into the inner circle created by the moat. This Path angles upward, gradually from the depth of the moat for several yards until it levels off into the inner circle. (In my photo of Stonehenge, there appears to be several of these submerged bridges within the moat).
Maybe this is just a path caused by the millions of tourists over the years. BUT - if this is an ancient Path, then the priests or astronomers wanted to keep people, intruders or animals Out of the Sanctuary, -- so it would be logical for the appearance of No Access through the moat. Yet, a submerged bridge, about a foot or so beneath the water level, would allow privileged people, Stonehenge 'society' members, to wade across the submerged bridge, safely... but intruders wouldn't know of this 'secret submerged bridge' and intruders were think there was No Access easily had to the Sanctuary. Generally, most people during these ancient times didn't swim, and many people were superstitious about getting into bodies of water. Some people perceived bodies of water as demonic or opportunities for spirits to possess them. The Guardians of Stonehenge might have used these superstitions of the common folk to help protect the Sanctuary from unwanted visitors by building a Water Moat and keeping the submerged bridge(s) a secret access only for themselves.
It just doesn't seem likely that the moat was a dry-ditch of stones... this wouldn't have served to protect the Stonehenge Sanctuary and its people from intruders and unwanted visitors.
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