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Stonehenge Damaged with Chewing Gum and Graffiti During Winter Solstice
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/conservation/11455098/Stonehenge-damaged-with-chewing-gum-and-graffiti-during-Winter-Solstice.html ^
| March 6, 2015
Posted on 03/07/2015 3:41:42 PM PST by beaversmom
Stonehenge was damaged during the Winter Solstice, with chewing gum stuck to the ancient monument, it has been disclosed.
A report The Heritage Journal also revealed graffiti was sprayed on the stones, people tried to light fires on them and someone dripped a line of oil on several of them in December.
Conservationists are calling for a ban to be put in place preventing people from walking among the stones on both the longest and shortest days of the year.
It comes as it emerged volunteers and staff at the site were "left in tears" following the last summer solstice as they were forced to clear up vomit and faeces.
Following a long battle, pagan leader King Arthur Pendragon won his fight for open access to the stones in 2000.
But staff at the iconic landmark say it should once again remain closed off during the annual events due to damage to the site.
One worker described the "appalling stench" and the "urine, vomit and faeces" left all around the stones after tens of thousands of people partied the night away on the shortest night of the year in June.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
TOPICS: History; Travel
KEYWORDS: archaeoastronomy; chewinggum; epigraphyandlanguage; fakedruids; godsgravesglyphs; graffiti; megaliths; stonehenge; wintersolstice
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To: lee martell
To: beaversmom
I’m surprised the stones haven’t been covered with graffiti yet.
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posted on
03/07/2015 4:22:27 PM PST
by
mass55th
(Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
To: beaversmom
Freaks and heathens............
![](http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m270/Viking2002/Viking1ribbon.jpg)
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posted on
03/07/2015 4:28:28 PM PST
by
Viking2002
(The Avatar is back by popular request.)
To: skeeter
There is a reason the Romans wiped them out.
To: skeeter; beaversmom
![]( https://mobithailand.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/obama-gum-2_crop.png)
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posted on
03/07/2015 5:59:07 PM PST
by
Colorado Doug
(Now I know how the Indians felt to be sold out for a few beads and trinkets)
To: Disambiguator
That’s not the Spinal Tap reference I was expecting on this thread. Well played! :)
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posted on
03/07/2015 6:01:45 PM PST
by
Joe 6-pack
(Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
To: beaversmom
Were these perps from Seattle?
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posted on
03/07/2015 6:26:13 PM PST
by
Daffynition
("We Are Not Descended From Fearful Men")
To: tet68
Reminds me of the chicle find.....I think we had a thread about it
http://images46.fotki.com/v677/photos/9/127099/8284992/urogommacicche130329170814_big-vi.jpg
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posted on
03/07/2015 6:33:08 PM PST
by
Daffynition
("We Are Not Descended From Fearful Men")
To: immadashell
You should come to our house.....it's a graveyard of bonehenges.
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posted on
03/07/2015 6:38:15 PM PST
by
Daffynition
("We Are Not Descended From Fearful Men")
To: beaversmom
Stonehenge was one of the most disappointing places I ever visited.
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posted on
03/07/2015 6:45:08 PM PST
by
Mears
(To learn, who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize."0~~Voltaire))
To: Mears
Why was that? Just not that impressive up close?
To: beaversmom
You couldn’t get near it-—there were fences all around it to keep the Travelers(Gypsies) out.
We parked across the street at a tourist trap rest stop and then walked through an underpass (under a busy road) and just stood there and looked,went back trough the underpass,bought souvenir postcards, and left.
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posted on
03/07/2015 6:52:33 PM PST
by
Mears
(To learn, who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize."0~~Voltaire))
To: Daffynition
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posted on
03/07/2015 7:46:03 PM PST
by
immadashell
(The inmates are running the asylum.)
To: Mears
I’m with you. The actual place is a big let down compared to the pictures of it.
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posted on
03/07/2015 7:51:59 PM PST
by
Mom MD
To: beaversmom
The idiots, as usual, ruin it for everyone else....very common and very sad....fence the thing off, no one gets to within 5 feet of the stones....walk along and look through a fence...PATHETIC...
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posted on
03/07/2015 8:30:35 PM PST
by
terycarl
(common sense prevails overall)
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
This topic was posted , thanks beaversmom.
![](https://i.imgur.com/eRHYOoK.png)
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posted on
03/20/2022 9:51:50 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: beaversmom
The fact that they let multitudes of people inside the circle every solstice kills me. As a tourist there in 2006, we had to stay on the other side of the rope that encircled the henge. Pissed me off.
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posted on
03/20/2022 10:42:03 PM PDT
by
mass55th
("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
To: stars & stripes forever
"They could bulldoze this site in record time."
Clearly. It only took Clark Griswold backing his car into it, to knock the whole thing down.
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posted on
03/20/2022 10:45:17 PM PDT
by
mass55th
("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
To: Daffynition
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posted on
03/20/2022 10:46:31 PM PDT
by
mass55th
("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
To: Mears
"Stonehenge was one of the most disappointing places I ever visited."
For me too. I got there and said: "I thought it would be bigger than that."
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posted on
03/20/2022 10:47:12 PM PDT
by
mass55th
("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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