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Stonehenge and its Environs

The bluestone debate

Cursuswalker C
Cursuswalker Jun 18, 2006 08:22:16
Replying to The Eternal

That is the frustrating thing about the Preseli origin. We KNOW there is a story behind their having been used in Stonehenge, and we KNOW we will never get to hear it.

As a Druid I find this very frustrating. We likes our stories we do.

So it is quite tempting to replace that story with one we can tell................hence glaciers did it.

I'm still sticking to the story about my Astra and its poor long-suffering roofrack :-)

N nigelswift
nigelswift Jun 18, 2006 08:37:27
Replying to Cursuswalker

The best "defence" against the glacier theory (assuming we all have a dodgy non-scientific wish for the "human transportation" story to be the right one, which I do) is to desist from asking "why would the Stonehenge People go all the way to Preseli to get stone?" and to be much more positive about the evidence and to say, confidently - "it looks very much as if the Stonehenge People went BACK to Preseli to get their stone circle".

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