Stonehenge and its Environs 134
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Well (haha), obviously I've been saying this all along! But would anybody listen? Would they 'eck! >snif< ;)

I must say I find this VERY interesting indeed... Cheers for posting this, LS! I shall see if I can find any follow-ups in the near future. It tallies quite nicely with what I've been thinking about connections to water sources for a while now!

Hurrah for the experts! :D

G x

Thought that might get your attention Goff :-)

Not to mention Layamon's poem, Brut, of 1215 where he writes of Stonehenge

The stones are great
And magic power they have
Men that are sick
Fare to that stone
And they wash that stone
And with that water bathe away their sickness

The operative words being fare, stone and wash - ie travelling to the stones to wash them, and with that water a sickness away.

There are similar rites still practiced in some parts of the world, where stones are washed in an act of purification. Perhaps something similar was also going on at Avebury and Silbury, with their abundance of streams, rivers and wells.