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It appears Stonehenge has been under construction since 1901 by British Authorities and bears no resemblance to the original array of rocks. Reinforced concrete and large cranes have been used to build Stonehenge.

What the hell was a large array of rocks created for, miles and miles from nearest villages? People would have had to travel days to get there in days of journey by foot or cart.

It's just a tourist scam.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjmY5zak28o&app=desktop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMofDWzfA6A

Unforgiven wrote on Sep 20^th, 2015 at 3:03pm:

A distance of 2 miles from the nearest prehistoric village (one of many in the area) wouldn't have require 'days of journey' by either foot OR cart.

Perhaps less reliance on Youtube, and a little more study of actual history would help you...

It's not fake. Repairing it so the tourists can see it don't make it fake.

There are lot's of stones circles in that region.

BRITAIN’S prehistoric inhabitants had an obsession with miniature versions of Stonehenge, scientists have found.

They have discovered hundreds of small stone circles and other shapes scattered around upland areas across the country, from Cornwall to northern Scotland.

http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/uk_news/Science/article1582727.ece

And they just found a bigger one near Stonehenge.

Heading north from Stonehenge up the A345, most tourists are unaware that they are driving straight through one of the largest archaeological monuments in Britain.

Durrington Walls, a “superhenge”, is wider than Wembley Stadium and almost five times the size of its more celebrated neolithic neighbour. However, a lack of standing stones in the ring of earthworks has long consigned it to obscurity — until now.

Today archaeologists will announce the discovery of as many as 90 large stones, some 15ft long, that appear to have been overturned and buried 3ft below the surface of the bank of soil at least 4,500 years ago.
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/science/article4549322.ece

gizmo_2655 wrote on Sep 20^th, 2015 at 6:52pm:

Perhaps less reliance on Youtube, and a little more study of actual history would help you...

Didn't help Gizmo. Please show evidence of the villages.

Maybe UK's first rock bands.

Unforgiven wrote on Sep 20^th, 2015 at 8:55pm:

Please show evidence of the villages.

Unforgiven can't do research

'New excavations near Stonehenge have uncovered hearths, timbers and other remains of what archaeologists say was probably the village of workers who erected the brooding monoliths on Salisbury Plain in England.

The archaeologists announced today that the 4,600-year-old ruins appear to form the largest Neolithic village ever found in Britain. The houses at the site known as Durrington Walls were constructed in the same period that Stonehenge, less than two miles away, was built as a religious center presumably for worshippers of the Sun and their ancestors.'

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/30/science/30cnd-stonehenge.html?_r=0

lee wrote on Sep 20^th, 2015 at 9:01pm:

Unforgiven wrote on Sep 20^th, 2015 at 8:55pm:

Please show evidence of the villages.

Maybe it was UK's first attempt at the invention of the iron lung.

Unforgiven wrote on Sep 20^th, 2015 at 3:03pm:

It appears Stonehenge has been under construction since 1901 by British Authorities

Unforgiven wrote on Sep 20^th, 2015 at 8:55pm:

gizmo_2655 wrote on Sep 20^th, 2015 at 6:52pm:

Perhaps less reliance on Youtube, and a little more study of actual history would help you...

Didn't help Gizmo. Please show evidence of the villages.

Maybe UK's first rock bands.

"Amesbury /ˈeɪmzbəri/ is a town and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. It is most famous for the prehistoric monument of Stonehenge which is in its parish, and for the discovery of the Amesbury Archer—dubbed the King of Stonehenge in the press—in 2002. It has been confirmed by archaeologists that it is the oldest continuously occupied settlement in the United Kingdom, having been first settled around 8820 BC.[2]

Eleanor of Provence, queen of England, died in Amesbury on 24 or 25 June 1291, and was buried in Amesbury Abbey.

The parish includes the hamlets of Ratfyn and West Amesbury, and most of Boscombe Down military airfield."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amesbury

"The Amesbury Archer is an early Bronze Age man whose grave was discovered during excavations at the site of a new housing development in Amesbury near Stonehenge. The grave was uncovered in May 2002, and the man is believed to date from about 2300 BC. He is nicknamed "the Archer" because of the many arrowheads that were among the artefacts buried with him.[1] The calibrated radiocarbon dates for his grave and dating of Stonehenge suggest the sarsens and trilithons at Stonehenge may have been raised by the time he was born,[2] although a new bluestone circle may have been raised at the same time as his birth.[3]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amesbury_Archer

Perhaps the Easter Island rock sculptors visited UK and lectured the poms on sculpting. The poms weren't capable of sculpting.

Maybe read up a bit on Druids, just a thought.

Look into sacred groves as well, pretty sure from memory now, there were oaks also planted in circles to create a similar space. Presumably for worship or ceremony at least.

Phemanderac wrote on Sep 21^st, 2015 at 9:37am:

The demise of the Druids exemplifies the benefits of immigration and genetic diversity. Otherwise UK would still be practicing cannibalism and human sacrifice.

Druids were barbarians who practiced cannibalism and mass human sacrifice. If Druids had popular support the Romans would not have been able to defeat them. Circles of various sorts were probably barbecue pits for cannibals.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/090320-druids-sacrifice-cannibalism.html

Quote:

Druids Committed Human Sacrifice, Cannibalism?
James Owen in London
for National Geographic News
March 20, 2009

Recent evidence that Druids possibly committed cannibalism and ritual human sacrifice—perhaps on a massive scale—add weight to ancient Roman accounts of Druidic savagery, archaeologists say.

Stonehenge Was Cemetery First and Foremost, Study Says

After a first century B.C. visit to Britain, the Romans came back with horrific stories about these high-ranking priests of the Celts, who had spread throughout much of Europe over a roughly 2,000-year period.

Julius Caesar, who led the first Roman landing in 55 B.C., said the native Celts "believe that the gods delight in the slaughter of prisoners and criminals, and when the supply of captives runs short, they sacrifice even the innocent."

First-century historian Pliny the Elder went further, suggesting the Celts practiced ritual cannibalism, eating their enemies' flesh as a source of spiritual and physical strength.

But with only the Romans' word to go on—the ancient Celts left no written record of their own—it's been easy for historians to dismiss such tales as wartime propaganda.

Until now, that is.

Gruesome Druid Discoveries

Recent gruesome finds appear to confirm the Romans' accounts, according to Secrets of the Druids, a new documentary airing Saturday on the U.S. National Geographic Channel.

At least one thing appears nearly certain about the ancient twentysomething: He was the victim of a carefully staged sacrifice.

Recent studies have revealed that Lindow Man's head had been violently smashed and his neck had been strangled and slashed.

"You've got a rope tightened round his neck, and at the moment where the neck was constricted, the throat was cut, which would cause an enormous fountain of blood to rise up," said archaeologist Miranda Aldhouse-Green, an archaeologist at Cardiff University in Wales and an expert on the Druids.

Another clue lay inside the body's well-preserved gut: pollen grains from mistletoe, a plant that was sacred to the Druids. (Romans wrote that Druids cut mistletoe from trees with golden sickles.)

Lindow Man's death is dated to around A.D. 60, when the Romans launched a new offensive in the island of Great Britain, currently part of the United Kingdom.

He may have been sacrificed to persuade the Celtic gods to halt the Roman advance, Aldhouse-Green said.

"Something had to be done to stop them in their tracks," she said in the documentary. "And what better way than sacrificing a high-status nobleman?"

The idea jibes with something Julius Caesar wrote: In times of danger, the Celts believed that "unless the life of a man be offered, the mind of immortal gods will not favor them."

Mass Druid Sacrifice?

Other grisly clues come from a cave in Alveston, England.

Skeletons belonging to as many as 150 people and dating back to about the time of the Roman conquest were discovered in 2000.

Druids may have killed the victims—who show evidence of skull-splitting blows—in a single event. It may have been the Roman invasion itself that escalated the Druids' ritualized slaughter, researchers say.

Mark Horton, an archaeologist at the University of Bristol, thinks the pile of bodies suggests savage resistance to the Romans, either on the battlefield or through deadly ritual.

"Maybe the whole thing is a gigantic sacrifice ... an appeasement to the gods in order that they will get ultimate victory against the Romans," Horton said.

The Alveston cave bones hint at something even more sinister—cannibalism.

A human thighbone in the cave had been broken open in exactly the same method people use to get at the nutritious bone marrow of nonhuman animals.

But if the bone is proof of Celtic cannibalism, the practice was probably extremely rare, Horton said. It may be evidence of increasing hunger and desperation as Roman invaders closed in, he added.

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