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moss wrote:
The following link should take you hopefully to Barry Cunliffe and the Iron Age, he gives an account of the economy of the chalkland settlements, he does stress use of querns right from Neolithic times. and of course there is always the pits that grain was stored in so that it did'nt sprout, presumably stored for small scale grinding with querns over the winter;)

http://tinyurl.com/4e824w

moss, thanks for the great link.

your point about the grain being stored so that it didn't sprout is exactly to the point.......crushed or rolled grain WILL NOT sprout and did not have to be stored underground in pits. ie. grain pits were no longer needed.

clyde

beatles wrote:
moss wrote:
The following link should take you hopefully to Barry Cunliffe and the Iron Age, he gives an account of the economy of the chalkland settlements, he does stress use of querns right from Neolithic times. and of course there is always the pits that grain was stored in so that it did'nt sprout, presumably stored for small scale grinding with querns over the winter;)

http://tinyurl.com/4e824w

moss, thanks for the great link.

your point about the grain being stored so that it didn't sprout is exactly to the point.......crushed or rolled grain WILL NOT sprout and did not have to be stored underground in pits. ie. grain pits were no longer needed.

clyde

thanks to you all.

amazing what thoughts a single grain found at stonehenge can generate.
the proof required for my theory is not the presence of grain, but rather the presence of MORE grain inside the monument compared to the outside countryside.......

if you take a look at the video from day 11 of the dig , you will see that the archaeologists intend to examine the soil for microscopic snails to deternine if the area around stonehenge was forest or grassland.....my bet is that they will find that it was grassland.

there was much initial objection to my theory on the grounds that salisbury plains was not grassland at the time of stonehenge. this determination of snails will be one more piece of the puzzle.

here is a mental exercise: suspend your preconceptions of stonehenge and take a moment and ask this question. "what if stonehenge Was a grain mill?" "what if it IS true?" during this moment of open mindedness, you will realize that it is important for this theory to be carried to it's ultimate conclusion... to do less would be to dismiss out-of-hand the possibility. At least this theory can be proved or disproved by scientific soil tests. what do we have to loose in testing the theory?

if there were a simple soil test for the astronomical or religious use theories there would be a rush to do the test.

your humble servant ,
clyde

To prevent grain from germinating you just need to keep it dry. Pots, beakers, jugs. store it in small batches in dry cool pits etc and it will survive for years..

Crush it, grind it and it starts to spoil from day one..

Why would you do that?