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Re: Stonehenge lintel holes
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He certainly seems to have had "issues". See this, from 1955 -
http://www.time.com/time/magaz[...]rticle/0,9171,865219-1,00.html

"Perhaps, speculates Atkinson, some Minoan came in person. To the barbarians of Salisbury Plain he must have seemed like a derm-god, full of wisdom and technical skill. If this traveler from civilization was the actual architect of Stone henge III, Atkinson thinks that his glorious name may have come down through history as the magician Merlin of King Arthurs court, to whom ancient British legend ascribes the building of Stonehenge."

Peculiar. Was he an ultra-snob, believing Mediterranean Classical Civilisation as taught in public schools and Oxbridge was all that counted for anything?

Did he suppress evidence of merit in British Prehistory in case the Oiks got above themselves?!!!


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Posted by nigelswift
4th January 2007ce
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