[decimon]

So Stonehenge was a scam. Ya just can't trust these Druids.

[Sacajaweau]

Oh, please...It was probably a public market similar to what we would call a country fair.

[decimon]

Feel the healin’ power ping.

[whatshotandwhatsnot]

Whatever its purpose it remains an awesome place to visit. I actually like Avebury more, though.

[PC99]

Sounds too much like New Age pablum. But it could be true - people back then led absolutely miserable lives of suffering.

[Justice Department]

STONE HENGE

MY Stone Henge

[TruthWillWin]

Place of healing? Must not have worked. No survivors to tell us what this place really was about.

[Lacey]

When I visited Stonehenge I was reminded of the Texas version.

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/images/tx/TXAMAcaddy1.jpg

[Wuli]

My own opinion, having read many different works on the subject, some claiming, and some opposed to the idea of, “superior” knowledge on the part of the builders, is that Stonehenge was most likely a late, monumental and ceremonial version of the use of an astronomical guide to the exact timing of the changing of the seasons.

The large dimensions of Stonehenge are a massive scale version of remnants of a particular kind of post-circle (wooden posts placed, standing in the ground) found, widespread over northern Europe and built in the same (exact) dimensions. The spacing between the post-holes is so precise (same dimensions), and so universal in its application it has been referred to as the “megalithic yard” - as if they all had the same megalithic “yard stick”.

Modern math and astronomy observers have reconstructed such circles and found that their precision as monitors and predictors of the changing seasons account for the precise circumference of the earth, the earth's orbit around the sun (the 365 and 1/4 day ‘year’), the tilt of the earth's axis and the precise start and end of each equinox.

They have even discovered how trained observers, starting to build a new circle, could through simple knowledge passed on, know how, through observation of the sun at the morning and evening ‘horizon’ over a series of days, come to know the distance (megalithic yard) to achieve between each post.

My own theory is that the origins of the method, which probably took place over millenniums, was achieved, initially, through repetition and recording of repetition of observations - and not “higher math”.

[Towed_Jumper]

“...the stone circle drew ailing pilgrims from around Europe for what they believed to be its healing properties...”

Given it's current state of disarray and collapse, Stonehenge could be a visual metaphor to the state of English socialized medicine.

[PGalt]

Thanks for posting. Thought-provoking & humorous thread. Thanks to all posters.

[Ignatz]

UK experts say Stonehenge was place of healing

Hmmm, I would posit that the evidence points to quite the opposite conclusion:

"Archaeologists Geoffrey Wainwright and Timothy Darvill said the content of graves scattered around the monument ..."

"An unusual number of skeletons recovered from the area showed signs of serious disease or injury."