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Stonehenge and its Environs

The bluestone debate

The Eternal T
The Eternal Jun 18, 2006 22:12:43
Replying to Littlestone

Littlestone,
>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.* <

Maybe there was a reaction to Avebury, years later someone said "Let's beat that." Let's face it, competition in modern times leads to building envy, not that it usually results in a similar improvement.
Cheers,
TE.

L Littlestone
Littlestone Jun 19, 2006 04:13:15
Replying to The Eternal

You know you're going mad when you start dreaming about stones...

Isn't it also possible (and apologies if this has been said before) that the bluestones are actually 'imprisoned' within the sarsen circle? That Stonehenge was neither made by people from Wales bringing their bluestones to Salisbury Plain, nor by a breakaway faction from Avebury, but by the strong and long-established culture already centred in and around Avebury? An Avebury-based culture that felt the time had come to build something a bit more fancy, knew of a famous bluestone circle in Wales, and went and nicked it in an act of supremacy (nicking the Stone of Scone springs to mind as a similar act of supremacy).

Right, got that off me chest - back to bed :-)

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