< I would posit that to fully explore these sites (and there nature) we therefore must explore ourselves, our very nature. >

For worrits worth, I think it essential aswell that to even begin to gain a real understanding of what these old stones are about it's essential to gerrout more and spend a lotta time at these places, in all weathers in all seasons. Sleep here. Eat here. Alter states here. Dream here. Our ancestors did it pretty regularly, but in the modern anorak society of facts and figures, such experiences are deemed as secondary to 'objectivity' (itself a construct of a subjective entity!). How wrong that is.

There's an obviously-increasing exploration of these places, but with them comes the inevitable 'ticking 'em off" as people visit them. It's not unlike the Munro-Baggers (as they're called) who climb the Scottish hills, only to waffle and name all the ones they've 'done', but in doing so seem all-too-often to miss the wild-flowers, the call of the burns, the shy fauna, and the chance to dream and hear the echo of old myths resounding in themselves. If people aren't too careful, they cut themselves off from the thing they intially set out to see. All to often...