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"Some work like a solar calendar but not all. Set apart from dwellings but normally found near or on burial grounds strongly suggests they have a big part in the funeral rights of that time. Probably a neolithic village green. Stonehenge being the most famous but not the oldest. Most likely celt in origin found all over the UK Ireland and brittany in France. Most are in found Scotland as well as the oldest ones so likely spread from Scotland. As to why stone henge was moved in my opinion it was probably moved by the original owners when the settled on solisbury plain would of took decades I guess so could of been built on a existings circle or something was used till it was ready (wooden henge maybe). " I think moved when owners wanted the land for use. Archeologists always make out religious/funerary but I dunno.. maybe something simpler like knowing cycles of the year etc. I think the Celts were later. In 10500bc there were asteroid strike wiping out much of what existed..the deluge. I think the folk who made these were who the Bible called "the watchers" At Newgrange on the winter solstice a beam passes up the passage then up the wall at the end then back down. Imagine being the druid telling the king the sun god would do this.. Powerful knowledge. | |||
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" Most are in found Scotland as well as the oldest ones so likely spread from Scotland. " Some of the stone has been traced to Spittal in Caithness. Caithness is the part of the mainland opposite the Orkney Islands. Settlements were built in Orkney that pre-date Stonehenge and they were abandoned before Stonehenge when the people migrated south. | |||
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"What a lot of people wanna know is how they got there, in the first place.no heavy lift transport back then. The answer (I could get kicked out of the magic circle for revealing this)here goes wait for it ,the answer is JUST LIKE THAT xxx " ... Royal Mail? | |||
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"They are made of giant pieces of lego." yes of course Ritchie babe plastic init xxx | |||
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"They are made of giant pieces of lego." They are built like lego.. the fittings on top of the standing stones cut like lego fittings for the lintels... .. How did they get the lintels in place...they weighed more than the average American | |||
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"What a lot of people wanna know is how they got there, in the first place.no heavy lift transport back then. The answer (I could get kicked out of the magic circle for revealing this)here goes wait for it ,the answer is JUST LIKE THAT xxx ... Royal Mail?" Still waiting, that’s why it’s not completed. | |||
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"It's a monument to the Celtic tribes who inhabited this land long before being swamped by waves of of illegal migrants from Angle, Jutland and Saxony. "And just where do you think the Celts came from? Europe just like everyone else. We’re all descended from migrants here. | |||
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"[Removed by poster at 16/12/24 09:52:46]" …. before I get a ban for racially (speciesally?) insulting Neanderthals. | |||
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"And just where do you think the Celts came from? Europe just like everyone else. We’re all descended from migrants here." And that is the interesting question! And still not definitively answered. The Celts of GB&I are baked after the Celts of continental Europe. Historians thought they must be the same people as they both had lots of similar looking swirling patterns in their art. Mercator and the native Australasians both made images of their understanding of geography looking down on the world as if from the heavens. So Mercator was an aboriginal? And the insular Celts and continental Celts were probably trading partners and nothing more. An old Irish myth spoke of the Milesian people coming from Spain - now it seems the earliest “Irish” people were from Galicia. They had come there at the end of a centuries-long migration from the Pontic Steppe. But the Celts also descended from the people of the steppe and so did the Germanics. It appears we are not only all defendants of Immigrants - we are all Ukrainians*. * - this is at least the third “definitely true” origin story for the ancient Irish, for whom a concept of Irishness was alien, I have been told during 50 years. | |||
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"I'm not sure of the answer but have my doubts that the stones were transported 100s of miles. There was probably a local source but that's just my opinion " I believe modern technology has proved that the blue stones did indeed come from the Preseli Mountains in West Wales. Some years ago a blue stone, similar to the ones at Stonehenge, was found in the Cleddau estuary which suggested they were transported by water/sea and one sunk. Also one of the stones--the altar stone{?}--has been proven to come from Scotland. Quite how or why these stones were moved such a vast distance, remains a mystery | |||
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"I'm not sure of the answer but have my doubts that the stones were transported 100s of miles. There was probably a local source but that's just my opinion I believe modern technology has proved that the blue stones did indeed come from the Preseli Mountains in West Wales. Some years ago a blue stone, similar to the ones at Stonehenge, was found in the Cleddau estuary which suggested they were transported by water/sea and one sunk. Also one of the stones--the altar stone{?}--has been proven to come from Scotland. Quite how or why these stones were moved such a vast distance, remains a mystery " I wonder if a poster above gave a clue,if Henges in Scotland older than Stonehenge,maybe they moved South...then invented football.. | |||
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"And just where do you think the Celts came from? Europe just like everyone else. We’re all descended from migrants here. And that is the interesting question! And still not definitively answered. The Celts of GB&I are baked after the Celts of continental Europe. Historians thought they must be the same people as they both had lots of similar looking swirling patterns in their art. Mercator and the native Australasians both made images of their understanding of geography looking down on the world as if from the heavens. So Mercator was an aboriginal? And the insular Celts and continental Celts were probably trading partners and nothing more. An old Irish myth spoke of the Milesian people coming from Spain - now it seems the earliest “Irish” people were from Galicia. They had come there at the end of a centuries-long migration from the Pontic Steppe. But the Celts also descended from the people of the steppe and so did the Germanics. It appears we are not only all defendants of Immigrants - we are all Ukrainians*. * - this is at least the third “definitely true” origin story for the ancient Irish, for whom a concept of Irishness was alien, I have been told during 50 years. " There’s quite a bit of genetic diversity even among the Celtic peoples of GB&I. My point being that there’s no such thing as an indigenous British people. | |||
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"I'm not sure of the answer but have my doubts that the stones were transported 100s of miles. There was probably a local source but that's just my opinion I believe modern technology has proved that the blue stones did indeed come from the Preseli Mountains in West Wales. Some years ago a blue stone, similar to the ones at Stonehenge, was found in the Cleddau estuary which suggested they were transported by water/sea and one sunk. Also one of the stones--the altar stone{?}--has been proven to come from Scotland. Quite how or why these stones were moved such a vast distance, remains a mystery " I wouldn’t say the origin of the altar stone had been proven beyond doubt. The sample tested was taken many years ago (1930’s?) and has been about a bit. So no real chain of evidence. Unless fresh sampling takes place (should English Heritage allow it) nothing is conclusive! | |||
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"I'm not sure of the answer but have my doubts that the stones were transported 100s of miles. There was probably a local source but that's just my opinion I believe modern technology has proved that the blue stones did indeed come from the Preseli Mountains in West Wales. Some years ago a blue stone, similar to the ones at Stonehenge, was found in the Cleddau estuary which suggested they were transported by water/sea and one sunk. Also one of the stones--the altar stone{?}--has been proven to come from Scotland. Quite how or why these stones were moved such a vast distance, remains a mystery " Remains found around Stonehenge show many were from the "" Welsh "" area..so seems people moved East, dismantling the Blue stones circle..,or at leat taking 4 ton each Blue stones with them.. As these peoples were farmers,I reckon they moved East to seek better land...or to avoid war...and the stones were to be their calender for planting crops etc.. | |||
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"I'm not sure of the answer but have my doubts that the stones were transported 100s of miles. There was probably a local source but that's just my opinion I believe modern technology has proved that the blue stones did indeed come from the Preseli Mountains in West Wales. Some years ago a blue stone, similar to the ones at Stonehenge, was found in the Cleddau estuary which suggested they were transported by water/sea and one sunk. Also one of the stones--the altar stone{?}--has been proven to come from Scotland. Quite how or why these stones were moved such a vast distance, remains a mystery I wouldn’t say the origin of the altar stone had been proven beyond doubt. The sample tested was taken many years ago (1930’s?) and has been about a bit. So no real chain of evidence. Unless fresh sampling takes place (should English Heritage allow it) nothing is conclusive!" There was something about this on a TV programme recently. Could be wrong, as wasn't taking too much notice, but I was of the impression tests had been done quite recently, and using the latest technology, to prove where the stones came from. | |||
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"I'm not sure of the answer but have my doubts that the stones were transported 100s of miles. There was probably a local source but that's just my opinion I believe modern technology has proved that the blue stones did indeed come from the Preseli Mountains in West Wales. Some years ago a blue stone, similar to the ones at Stonehenge, was found in the Cleddau estuary which suggested they were transported by water/sea and one sunk. Also one of the stones--the altar stone{?}--has been proven to come from Scotland. Quite how or why these stones were moved such a vast distance, remains a mystery I wouldn’t say the origin of the altar stone had been proven beyond doubt. The sample tested was taken many years ago (1930’s?) and has been about a bit. So no real chain of evidence. Unless fresh sampling takes place (should English Heritage allow it) nothing is conclusive! There was something about this on a TV programme recently. Could be wrong, as wasn't taking too much notice, but I was of the impression tests had been done quite recently, and using the latest technology, to prove where the stones came from." Nothing wrong with the testing, it’s the provenance of the sample that, as I understand it, is questionable. | |||
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"It was originally designed as a high speed rail link between salisbury, wales and scotland, but they ran out of shiny trinkets to pay for it.. been the same story ever since in this country" . . Your profile name suggests insider knowledge  | |||
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"Newgrange burial mound,Ireland..built before Stonehenge... On winter solstice ( today) a rectangle above the "" door"" makes the sun light up the chamber for 7 minutes... all that building alignment for around 7 mins" I saw an article on this building on the BBC news website this morning I believe it is in county Meath | |||
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