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Stonehenge Graffiti / Dagger Stone

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These were posted by Rhiannon / Kammer here a while ago but were new to me at least:

http://www.stonehengelaserscan.org/carvings.html
http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba73/feat1.shtml

- and interesting because they don't seem to have been considered in the recent Parker Pearson or Wainwright theories - or in the bluestone debate.

A few years ago, I remember we read a reference to another carving - on top of one of the lintol stones - (in the previous incarnation of the pre-history gallery at the British Museum) but this doesn't seem to be mentioned anywhere else.

The formal explanation is that they're graffiti, and so may be disregarded. Cretan tin traders, it used to be. The faces on many of the Avebury stones are less easily disposed of-so they're just not mentioned at all.