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Stonehenge and its Environs

The Secrets of Stonehenge

tiompan T
tiompan Jun 2, 2009 17:30:40
Replying to Pete G

Pete G wrote:
to be fair it was the last trench opened during the season and time was short.
It was also on private land so permissions would have to have been sought to extend the trench.
Maybe this year they will reopen it and have a look.
PeteG
Right by a convenient crossing point of the Avon ,it could be anything from any period . Luckily the solstice aligned "parallel stripes " had enough time to be dug .

N nigelswift
nigelswift Jun 2, 2009 17:42:22
Replying to tiompan

So what about those stripes?

Natural, and amazingly luckily aligned on the solstice, so the ancients noticed this and located the monument and the Avenue accordingly....

It hangs together as a viable theory, just about, but a theory that depends on a massive natural fluke....??? What would Occam say?

Haven't those "natural" but inexplicable lines in Malta finally been identified as cartwheel ruts?

P Pete G
Pete G Jun 2, 2009 17:49:55
Replying to tiompan

yup, it could be the site of a previous bridge OTOH it could have been a trilithon entrance way to the avenue.

As to the stipes, couldn't they be caused by dragging all the stones up the slope?

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