Good points FW.

Sometime ago, on another site, I suggested that a new circle be constructed where people could go and do their thing without being harassed. People replied by saying that stones could be donated by folks in different parts of the world. Looking back now on the suggestion it seems more than a bit naive. How many stones? How do you align them? Where do you do it? Not to mention the nightmare scenarios associated with insurance, health and safety etc. If it's ever going to happen perhaps it'll only happen because one person has the vision and the means to do it.

Meanwhile there's the little matter of tradition. All belief systems have a place where their belief was born (Bethlehem, Ganges, Ise, Jerusalem, Lumbini, Mecca etc) and associated places where those beliefs have been followed for hundreds of years. These places become sacred and places of pilgrimage where fellow believers meet and share their belief.

Modern paganism in the West is still trying to find it's feet, and it's not surprising that modern pagans look towards Avebury and Stonehenge as focal points for their beliefs. It's all too easy for us to say, "Nah, they've got it all wrong, Druids and pagans never were there." But you know, at a place like Avebury, their really is room for latter-day Druids and pagans to do their thing on a few days each year while the residents get on with their lives for the rest of the time.