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Pete G Jun 22, 2004 22:53:32

Replying to Pete G

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/3830547.stm

Archdruid wants Stonehenge back

The archdruid of Wales has called for England's most famous landmark to be returned to Wales.

This week experts said remains found near Stonehenge were almost certainly among those who helped build it.

Tests on teeth found in a 4,300-year-old grave suggest the prehistoric workmen were Welsh.

That and the fact that the stones come from west Wales, has prompted Robyn Lewis - the ceremonial leader of the Gorsedd of Bards - to put pen to paper.

In a letter in the Daily Telegraph, Dr Lewis pointed out the significance of the discovery.

And, he asked : "Since the Stone of Destiny was returned to Scotland a few years since, and it is clearly only a matter of time until the Elgin Marbles are returned to Greece, may I express a request that Stonehenge be returned to Wales?"

moss Jun 23, 2004 07:16:34

Replying to Pete G

That does'nt make sense, Wales was'nt Wales when Stonehenge was erected! Perhaps he should try Gray's hill circle..

jimit Jun 23, 2004 08:59:45

Replying to Pete G

The letter below it in The Telegraph made me snigger as well...

SIR - Stonehenge is probably an early example of civil engineering in soft ground where pile-driving was employed and later abandoned.
Before these deeply inserted uprights had become exposed by soil erosion.
later attempts by the Romans to use them as foundations may have been frustrated by Senate planning restraints.
Born in Amesbury 70 years ago, I seem to remember the initial letters of a carved inscription, now long worn away, Dedicatio Restrictum Ubique Institutum Desistus, now the source of much reverence by later worshipers.
Robert Vincent
Wildhern, Hants

Cursuswalker Jun 27, 2004 01:03:09

Replying to Pete G

Ah, but he's one of those respectable Welsh Christian Druids, not a nasty pot-smoking English Druid:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/2171775.stm

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