Sorry to be replying so late, but I think FourWinds was right to point to the "middle of nowhere" status of Stonehenge during the centuries of christian monopoly. Aubrey Burl observes: "By the end of the second millennium {BC} Stonehenge was almost deserted, its stones cold and grey in the creeping winds of the Plain...By the iron age the circle was a relic." (The Stonehenge People", Guild, London, 1987, p.217.)
But what is lost can be found, or reinvented. We now know that by Saxon or possibly Roman times Stonehenge was back in use as a place of official, probably ritual killing. The skeleton excavated there in the 1920's, previously thought to have been finally reduced to dust by a world war two bomb, staged its second coming in 2,000, when a closer archaeological look concluded that its unfortunate original owner had been beheaded. It is not known if a video of the execution was posted on the internet but the body was buried within the main ditch, presumably close to where the dirty deed was done.
Someone, it seems, rediscovered Stonehenge as a place of death and - whatever religion they may have supported - coopted the dramatic angular grandeur of the place as a fitting venue for ritualised, probably state organised, murder.
Treeman
