Stonehenge and its Environs 134
Image by RiotGibbon

Perhaps there's a clue in the other circle (and surrounding structures) just up the road at Avebury?

well the Stonehenge area seems to have been auspicious since the year dot, viz the meso postholes.... but are those coincidental? Maybe not, the postholes adjacent to Bryn celli ddu have just been measured as predating it by 3000 years...

There's rather a lot going on with these places we don't understand isn't there?! O for the clarity of d.....ing rods.

There's rather a lot going on with these places we don't understand
You can say that again; but it seems to me that constructing Stonehenge, so close to Avebury, was a statement of some sort; what that statement might have been is a whole new can of worms.* Was Stonehenge built by a breakaway fraction of 'religious' leaders formerly at Avebury? Was Stonehenge built by a 'new' religious order from the west - this kind of thing has happened before at other places around the world (you might even say it's still happening today :-)

*And don't mention the 'd' word - you know what happens if you do...

Insecta repented (Crawling Vermin)*

Worms
gnaw things

The Earth-worm
the Earth;

The Caterpillar
the Plant;

The Grasshopper
the Fruits;

The Mite
the Corn;

Now what, I wonder, should we call those crawling muddy little vermin that insidiously gnaw away at the sensible contributions of others ;-)

*Orbis Pictus by John Amos Comenius. 1659.