"The cleaned straw was saved for fuel, thatching, and weaving into baskets to hold the new grain. A well drained area on a hill or rise would have been preferable for this work. The fact that there is no evidence of ceremonial fire or hearth in most stone circles is understandable when viewed in the light that the circles might have been granaries. The outlying ditch would have been of value as a firebreak. Protecting the valuable grain would have been of the utmost importance to these early farmers."

I would expect to find some heath evidence on site for making the wheat into bread and possibly some storage pits to keep the grains in.

Also the powder from wheat is extremely flammable having stacks of straw on site would cause major fire risks, plus the powder would blow away quite easily as it on a windswept hill.

Apologies for ripping this to bits but any archeologist would do the same - hopefully you can bolster your thesis by looking into this.

Cheers and yet again apologies

please read the thesis on the site for the answers to your questions. then get back to me if you still have questions... as to wear on the sarsen ring, it is much too weathered by 300 years to show what little wear would have been produced by the wooden rollers of the mill....
thanks'
clyde

so far nothing like this has been done. isolated test have been performed here and there but nothing of this scale. and as you know, any test at stonehenge requires almost an act of god so we must wait.

thnaks.
clyde