The Longest day

Brass Monkey wrote:Well, happarintly... happarintly there's an altar stone cut in two, either side of a road in Wiltshire. The others I'm going with the scouser theory.

Yeah, i heard about that altar stone. Dunno if it's been confirmed.

Regarding the scousers, wowsers and bowsers who may have took them it still leaves the question - where are they now? Surely a major mystery.

Yeah, it is. Scientists are being lazy and saying it was probably the elements. Some malarkey happened. But then, they would say that.

Brass Monkey wrote:Yeah, it is. Scientists are being lazy and saying it was probably the elements. Some malarkey happened. But then, they would say that.

The elements wouldn't have weathered the removed ones any more than the ones that are still standing.

If they are part of some nearby building they would stand out like a sore thumb and besides, the effort of removing them would seem rather excessive for putting together a local house. They are pretty solid too so no-one would have bothered cutting them up.

Lightning?

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, Lanky Lankyyyyyyyyyyyy ...

Brass Monkey wrote:Lightning?

Nah.

Is that a scientific rationale, or more of a harrumph(non-horrie)?

Brass Monkey wrote:Is that a scientific rationale, or more of a harrumph(non-horrie)?

Common sense. Lightning could not make so many stones 'disappear'.

Looking at a map it seems many of the missing stones are from the same part of the circle and almost all of the lintels are missing. It makes you wonder whether it was ever completed at all. Maybe the job was given up as being too hard.

I'll have to find a book on the subject to see how certain it is that there ever were stones in those spots.

ten years after wrote:

Common sense. Lightning could not make so many stones 'disappear'.

Looking at a map it seems many of the missing stones are from the same part of the circle and almost all of the lintels are missing. It makes you wonder whether it was ever completed at all. Maybe the job was given up as being too hard.

I'll have to find a book on the subject to see how certain it is that there ever were stones in those spots.

I think it's of reasonable certainty. I watched a science of Stonehenge once, f*ckin interesting. They showed exactly the place they came from, there were ones that were still half finished and some tools etc. Then they got a group of people to try and put a couple up and a lintel, of which's groove fit onto a semi-sphere to keep it in place. Decent maths for a bunch of meatheads.

The 'blue stones' come from Wales!

There was a really good programme on about it the other day. A mile or so away is Woodhenge which is an exact replica of Stonehenge but made of wooden posts and they reckon that's where the actual festivities and sacrifices etc took place. Loads of bones have been found there and cremation remains. Then everyone made their way to the stones. The wood represents life, and the stones, death.

Brass Monkey wrote:

ten years after wrote:

Common sense. Lightning could not make so many stones 'disappear'.

Looking at a map it seems many of the missing stones are from the same part of the circle and almost all of the lintels are missing. It makes you wonder whether it was ever completed at all. Maybe the job was given up as being too hard.

I'll have to find a book on the subject to see how certain it is that there ever were stones in those spots.

I think it's of reasonable certainty. I watched a science of Stonehenge once, f*ckin interesting. They showed exactly the place they came from, there were ones that were still half finished and some tools etc. Then they got a group of people to try and put a couple up and a lintel, of which's groove fit onto a semi-sphere to keep it in place. Decent maths for a bunch of meatheads.

If there are some half finished stones in a quarry that would suggest the building wasn't finished.

If the building was finished then the mystery of the missing stones seriously needs an answer. Should be number one on the list of sexy archaeology projects.

No, I think there're similar projects that used that particular stone, in Wiltshire again. Possibly near Marlborough, I can't remember. Similarly, there's some in France, in two rows of straight lines that're from around the same time and the stone's from the same place believe it or not. That place was quite a hotbed around that time. Shame the nobheads had no form of recording it all. I'd have lent them a pen and paper...

Brass Monkey wrote:No, I think there're similar projects that used that particular stone, in Wiltshire again. Possibly near Marlborough, I can't remember. Similarly, there's some in France, in two rows of straight lines that're from around the same time and the stone's from the same place believe it or not. That place was quite a hotbed around that time. Shame the nobheads had no form of recording it all. I'd have lent them a pen and paper...

Thoughtless bunch, the Neoliths.

If they planted any of those time capsules like kids at school do nowadays then they hid them too well. I suspect they didn't do it at all. They obviously just didn't care about future generations....

Serious thought for a moment. When they were building the stone structures at Stonehenge the Roman occupation was still 2000 years away.

To the Roman occupiers of Britain, Stonehenge was as ancient a monument as Roman buildings are to us.

ten years after wrote:
Serious thought for a moment. When they were building the stone structures at Stonehenge the Roman occupation was still 2000 years away.

To the Roman occupiers of Britain, Stonehenge was as ancient a monument as Roman buildings are to us.

Aye. Amazing to think of the age. Shame people are such twats nowadays, I'd love to be able to just go up and chill by them. I swear things like that give off some aura. Now all you can do is book a private walk around. Pants.