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Stonehenge

Those enigmatic bluestones

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tiompan Aug 24, 2009 16:40:11
Replying to Rockrich

Rockrich wrote:
tiompan wrote:
Rupert Soskin wrote:
Well, to echo the overall point... I had quite a fight in getting the bloodsports theory into the book Standing With Stones as the persistant view is that henges were temples.
We sent a copy of the film to the Time Team crew and within months they had made their own version of our Stanton Drew segment putting the possibility of bloodsports at Woodhenge.

I think it's like dominoes... the stubborn closed minds will fall eventually, it just takes a couple of louder voices. Apparently we on the outside of the archeo establishment are 'nobodies' with no right to opse theories outside our remit.

Keep fighting the good fight I say!

Rupert I don't know your'e theory re bloodsports .Could you explain please ?
Not wishing to do Rupert and Michael out of a few more copies being sold, but Mr Bott posted this to youtube, so I presume its ok ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulpQqzO2EFA

Cheers Rich , Dunno if Avebury was consideed to be one of the the bloodsports arenas but if so lack of timber circle would be a problem and despite having a decent bank , unlike the woodhenge , the punters would have neded binoculars to see what was going on in an area three times the diameter of the others . It seems a huge waste of effort to fell the timbers required only to cut them down to size ,why not just use narrower timbers and maybe more of them ? Pinball might be a possibility though or the last refuge of the woodpecker totem clan .

R Rupert Soskin
Rupert Soskin Aug 24, 2009 17:12:31
Replying to tiompan

not suggesting that they used artificial forests in all of them, but when they did a sixty-foot tree could give ten usable posts, if you see what I mean

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