Thanks for the link moss, Trying to say Stonehenge was designed as a work of art is just putting modern [art critic] minds on the monument [it's the same with the ice age program, even though it was great to look at, they were seen as magical items not art], it's funny how they suggest Stonehenge may have been conceived as a work of art and then in the next breath say the carvings are 700-800 years after it was built [with the sarsens], and they [the carvings] probably have nothing to do with the original builders beliefs or and this is the important bit those styles of axes and daggers, it suggests new people to the region did the art by bringing their new culture with them and the locals at the time loving all the new types of shiny shiny metal items [daggers and flanged axes from the med would have been very exotic and the thing to have at the time].
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