Posted on 08/31/2008 8:04:57 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Archeologists have uncovered the remains of what they believe to be a 20ft fence designed to screen Stonehenge from the view of unworthy Stone Age Britons. The wooden construction extended nearly two miles across Salisbury Plain more than 5,000 years ago, and would have served to shield the sacred site from the prying eyes of ordinary lower-class locals... The dig's co-director Dr Josh Pollard, of Bristol University, said: "The construction must have taken a lot of manpower. The palisade is an open structure which would not have been defensive and was too high to be practical for controlling livestock. It certainly wasn't for hunting herded animals and so, like everything else in this ceremonial landscape, we have to believe it must have had a religious significance. The most plausible explanation is that it was built at huge cost to the community to screen the environs of Stonehenge from view. Basically, we think it was to keep the lower classes from seeing what exactly their rulers and the priestly class were doing."
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Nope, turns out Merlin was gay, and the whole Stonehenge complex needed a wall around it for nude sunbathing. ;’)
Looks like a fort. :’) Nope, ceremonial purposes. ;’D Thanks FN.
All, there are a few topics about large Stonehenge-like sites in Brittany, Germany, and Russia (at least). Check the keyword above.
Could have been. It’s not unlikely that the wall was there to keep the sacrifice victims from making a run for it.
How was the height of the fence determined?
Spoken like a true capitalist!
Probably by how high the researchers were. ;’)
Lol! I guess I walked into THAT one!!!
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