Sanctuary wrote:
Just out of interest, how many would prefer to know what such places as Stonehenge and Avebury as examples were really all about, or would it spoil it for you if you did? Would you prefer the mystery to continue or not? And if we did know, I wonder if it would be of any benefit to us today?
I think the answer is its better not to know and leave it all to the imagination. For me, Avebury is wandering along, next to the Winterbourne and seeing an ancient landscape, once long ago ;) Archaeology fits about 10% of the jigsaw, time of course flows smoothly on and the landscape is shaped by different hands. Burl would tell us that the people who built EKLB or WKLB or even later Silbury, died young and their bones showed various diseases and probably warfare. Human history is a question of survival and is never particularly happy, what is left in the form of barrows, stone circles and standing stones are but a passing record of a belief or hope in the future, so, all we can do is look at the stones and wonder.....