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nigelswift Sep 5, 2008 16:00:53
Replying to Mortimer

Can't find the reference off hand, but I think it was suggested as a possibility by an archaeologist, the Hereford County Archeo possibly, to account for the factr it was so delicate it wouldn't have been suitable for walking on (and it was domed, anyway) hence I put it in as one possibility.

It isn't that "people here" or "I" have any particular beliefs, the speculation was about what the original people might have used it for. That's not "bunkum" is it? What were the Stonehenge and Avebury Avenues seen as by their builders?

M Mortimer
Mortimer Sep 5, 2008 17:27:08
Replying to nigelswift

I think that just because some archaeologist says it might have been spiritual doesn't give it legitimacy. Many people have thought this in the past and been rounded on by various people in many places. Or may be it tells us that archaeologists might be a bit slower than others. I can't say. But we must be cautious in accepting something because one group says it is correct. The spirituality of the people who built these monuments is, after all, unknown. Speculative remarks such as that should at least be admitted as such.