Stonehenge: Built By Welshmen?

Discovery News ^ | 6-18-2004 | Jennifer Viegas

[cyborg]

Built by ancient astronauts. Just like the pyramids.

[blam]

King Of Stonehenge (Settler from the Alps)

[blam]

"Built by ancient astronauts. Just like the pyramids."

BAH!

[CholeraJoe]

Cymru am byth! (loosely translated, "Welshmen Rock!")

[solitas]

I saw the title of this posting, and the first thing that came to my mind was an image of Harry Secombe (aka Neddie Seagoon) moving the stones. Everything went crashingly downhill from there. :)

(I'd enjoy hearing from anyone else interested in Secombe/Milligan/Sellers/Bentine.)

[fhayek]

Ah, the Goons. I remember when they climbed Mt Everest - from the inside.

[lizma]

This must have been no easy task,

I suspect just staying alive back then was no easy task!

I've always wondered how nearsighted people managed to do it. Your life depended on your senses and you can't see far away. What a disadvantage. But I guess if you lived long enough you were the only ones who could see up close.

Pickin up my new bifocals on Tuesday. Thank you Mr. Franklin.

[per loin]

The mass grave dates to around the same time and place of the Amesbury Archer, a man from Central Europe who was given the richest burial of the age in Europe. He was found a few years ago, and his grave contained pots, metalworking tools, and the earliest known gold objects in Britain.

Hmmmm...I'd thought the Amesbury Archer was dated about 2300 BC, not 2300 years ago, as with these graves.

[CholeraJoe]

When I was a kid living in Berkshire in the 50's, I used to listen to the Goons on BBC in the evenings. Dad was in the USAF stationed at RAF Welford.

[jpsb]

Yea, the dates are all wrong, no way Stonehenge was built 300 B.C. More sloppy reporting.

[Myrddin]

Cymru am byth! (loosely translated, "Welshmen Rock!")

Cymru am bydd! Mae'r Stonehenge yn garreg mawr.

[lennydetroit]

"Ah, the Goons. I remember when they climbed Mt Everest - from the inside."

I don't wish to know that!

Regards,
Lenny

[Ciexyz]

Stonehenge: Built by Welshmen?

And were they named Williams?

[Porterville]

I saw a documentary when I was very young, that the stones were put there by blue whales that carried the stones on their backs..

[going hot]

Check out the link below for a possible way to build/move those rocks and bigger without power tools or hydraulics, (or space tractor beams and the like).

I do not know the html thingie, but you can paste the addy. Check it out.

Regards,

http://theforgottentechnology.com./Page1.htm

[blam]

"Hmmmm...I'd thought the Amesbury Archer was dated about 2300 BC, not 2300 years ago, as with these graves."

From the article linked in post #3:

"The grave of the Archer, who lived around 2,300BC, contained about 100 items, more than ten times as many objects as any other burial site from this time. When details were released, the media dubbed the Archer “The King of Stonehenge”."

[CholeraJoe]

Ich dien!

Gwell Angau na Chywilydd

[CholeraJoe]

And were they named Williams?

Or Diones(Jones), Mwr(Moore) or Powys (Powers)? My grandparents carried these names to the US from Cumbria (Cymru)

[Myrddin]

Not to mention:
ab Owain -> Bowen
ab Eynon -> Beynon
ap Rhys -> Price
Rhys -> Reese
Gruffudd -> Griffith
Huws -> Hughes
Rhisiart -> Richard
ap Hywel -> Powell
ap Henri -> Penri

Many Welsh surnames are genitive forms of given names. The occurred when the English forced the Welsh to take surnames instead of the old patronymic pattern. Thus we have Johns, Edwards, Williams, Hughes