Stonehenge Could have been Resting Place for Royalty

Several news sources carried the story, this particular link is to the Science Daily version. Makes an interesting read, but no conclusions on the reason Stonehenge was built. It does discuss some of the recent and/or current projects though.

Here is the lead paragraph:

The story is a day or two old, so my bad if this is already under discussion. I searched "stonehenge" along with "graveyard", "cemetery", and "burial" and got no positive results, but I could have missed it.

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They unearthed some of my old socks, which would explain the radioactivity...I apologize for dislodging legitimate science

Pete

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There's so much I don't know about astrophysics. I wish I had read that book by that wheelchair guy.

I finished a Web site for a client two weeks ago, who is also claiming "Stonehenge Solved", in this case, as a lunar observatory.

I love the image of Stonehenge on their home page by English artist, John Constable, which looks somewhat different to Stonehenge as we know it today.

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Sounds OK until you wonder about the Aubrey holes...

Also got to wonder about how they moved them there stones so far.

In other words, don't go accepting any explanations until they explain ALL the problems with orthodox theories.

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It's a complex site. It was probably used by different groups of people for different things over a long period of time. At least that's my opinion. So I wouldn't be surprised if it was used as a calendar and used as a graveyard at different times.

There's some sites in Ireland that are maybe even cooler, from an astronomical perspective.

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Ropes. Log rollers. People.

More than 100 years ago we were moving far more massive things. What's the big perplexion, here?

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Yes, the archeologists have worked out a route from the Prescelly Mountains to where the stones are now that's mostly water, and the land portion could easily have been acomplished with log rollers and lots of help. With lots of help, you can do almost anything.

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THC had a show that Stonehenge was actually the center of a small city.

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The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

In the Year 2525.

"One small step for (a) man. One giant leap for mankind".

If an astronaut doesn't need good grammar, niether does you.

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/ Feel like rocking out for some reason.

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Actually, it wasn't the Celts or the Druids that built Stone Henge. That was a myth the Romans said about it. The people who built it weren't celtic and didn't even speak an endo-european language.

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LOGIC, n.
The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

In the Year 2525.

"One small step for (a) man. One giant leap for mankind".

If an astronaut doesn't need good grammar, niether does you.

Host of Seraphim

It is interesting when we try to re create the event. Now, it does strike me as not well thought out but have a look at this.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/771988.stm
It later fell off a barge into Milford Haven dock.

By no means am I saying it could not be done but on a related note, how many can start a fire without modern means? If you see what I am getting at?

Ral, here's my authoritative source. (3 minute youtube video, pretty sure it's SFW*, although some of the related videos don't appear to be.)

/ Spinal Tap wants to make your eardrums bleed.

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"your going to regret that one. You are now a colonoscope...
- Chrissy, corrupting PraedSt's wish.

Sure, we know that. But Nigel Tufnel doesn't.

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and again:

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Are you talking about the article or the site iantresman linked to? The article is a glorified press release--I at least am not taking any big conclusions from it aside from "people were buried there in such a way...". The site may be a different story, but building a site is like building a house. You don't have to like it, you just do the job. As a disclaimer, I haven't looked beyond the mainpage of the site so I have little idea what's there.

All in all though, good advice and an excellent reminder!

/Edit to add:

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I wonder if anyone has thought about the geographic relationship between stone henge and Preseli mountains. I mean they are due west, from SH and would have been close to where the sun set in winter. So the stones would have come from the land where the sun set in winter; I thought that might mean something.

I wonder if the other stones in the site came from geographically significant parts of Europe..

Druids venerated groves, not stones, and post-dated Stonehenge (and the other, better, stone circles in the British Isles) by millenia.
The "Celts" are also a myth, albeit a comparitively recent one. Celticness is these days defined mostly in language, partly in culture and never in blood.

I'm not surprised by the presence of inhumations at Stonehenge. For most of the history of settlement on the British Isles, religion was not a separate thing - you did not, for example, go to a church on special occasions and then live your life the rest of the time. Religion was very much woven in to every aspect of life. The presence of inhumations in virtually all contemporary structures in Scotland attests to this.

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Well the rocks were rolled when they were moved.

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