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Re: Was Stonehenge a hospital?
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nigelswift wrote:
"I saw the article and the Holy Well connection and was fully expecting Goff to come along shouting Told Yer."


Jenkins was linking several ideas together to make a clever argument, the article is written in his usual vein, half mocking, half serious - beware of silvered tongues.....

"To my mind there seems to be a bit of a forced linkage between the healing springs and the bluestones. Why shouldn't the stones have been revered for any other number of reasons?"


The whole landscape round Carn Meini is awe-inspiring, it really does have sacred writ large in its rocks, visual impact, the mountains rising like an island from the lower fields. The sea is to the west, great ridges running down embedded with stone, natural carns that look like longbarrows - water, stone and the world around would have made this a significant natural place, to take with you as they "colonised" Salisbury Plain...


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Posted by moss
4th December 2006ce
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