Then a new cycle bluestones Avon, one mile from the famous landmark of Stonehenge has been discovered along. Archaeologists with Bluestonehenge "About" is excited, but how widespread the world reacts to confirm that our ancestors in rock excavation, which the organization of transport of these courses more than once?Stonehenge has stood sentinel over this last age on Salisbury plain, presenting us with immovable riddles but offering little in the way of explanation. Ideas about what Stonehenge means have abounded, from the coolly scientific to those of howling lunacy. Were the stones dragged from the Preseli Hills in Wales or did Merlin move them with magicWere the dimensions of Stonehenge dictated by sacred geometry? How much do ley lines have to do with their situation? What does it mean that next to Stonehenge is the largest military training site in the UK?
Most people believe that Stonehenge is a calendar to mark the movements of planets and stars. Many druids and pagans embrace it as a sacred place to honour the holy days with drumming, dancing and feasting. More recently, Geoff Wainwright and Tim Darvill have suggested Stonehenge was a place of profound healing. The current project director of the excavated site, Mike Parker Pearson, argues that Stonehenge was a giant burial pit.The land is spotted with fortifications, burial chambers, stone circles and mounds from the beginning of this last age. Another one will sit happily alongside Stonehenge, prompting much carbon-dating and yardstick-waving about the importance of this particular neolithic site over all others. We might not have all the answers about why these sites were created where they were, but we could begin by examining the way in which we ask the questions.
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