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interesting that you would point out that the modern ceremonies now held at stonehenge are at the four corners of the farming year. that is exactly my point, the grain and the stones were connected. the grainery theory fits this idea perfectly, perhaps so much so that people are still gathering there on an agricultural time scale.
clyde

No, you're off the trot there. People are still gathering there because we still live in an agricultural society. I know everyone disagrees with this - information age (etc) but our lives still revolve around producing and consuming food. The test, of course, is to go without for a few days.

Have a look - ie Google - the stone watermill at Little Salkeld in Cumbria. Nick, there, is a particularly helpful individual (if he's still there) and it would be useful to run your theory past him. (He's been producing lovely flour for thirty years).

In a strange way I have sympathy with your view - I believe the potter's wheel was in use here long before it is accepted that it was - but there is little or no supporting evidence. What we have - querns and worn down teeth - suggests that milling grain was a kitchen enterprise. And I've done it - remember the old Corona mill? No wind power neede there, just a sturdy table and some elbow grease ...