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texlahoma Aug 3, 2012 15:42:59
Replying to bladup

bladup wrote:
I can't really see beyond it been a money making exercise, i think the people who built stone circles would have hated money, i'm sorry but this whole thing gives me an uneasy feeling, but i suppose in this day and age nothing is sacred anymore.
Well there was no commerce involved, no products to buy at the site, it was built for the event to happen with a completely different event and space for the commerce which would be much more suitable to discuss on the village pump or unsung given it's nature.

There are plenty of evidence for goods and tokens, and later money at sacred sites though, all the way though from precious stones, grave goods and later coins right through to the roman era. Depends on which site your thinking of specifically or your theory on who was doing the building at which time in pre-history.

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bladup Aug 3, 2012 15:55:33
Replying to texlahoma

Stone circles have nothing left in them [thats why archeologists don't like them] and when they do find stuff it's from a different age [romans liked leaving coins, and other people putting cairns or cremations in them] to when the circle was built, and their not going to be giving all there perfume away are they?? It doesn't give you an uneasy feeling but it does me, it's just my opinion. The video made me cringe [because of the commercialism, some guy gets taken to stonehenge and while there was thinking how he could use daddys money to make money out of the experience] to me it is quite clearly a money making exercise. The only diggers used on our one were to pull it down. The building side for the makers was probably a very underestimated part of the exercise.