July 22, 2010
Stonehenge’s wooden sister
The timber henge — a name given to prehistoric monuments surrounded by a circular ditch — would have been constructed and modified at the same time as its more famous relative, and probably had some allied ceremonial or religious function, Chapman said in a telephone interview from Stonehenge.
Exactly what kind of ceremonies those were is unclear. The new henge joins a growing complex of tombs and mysterious Neolithic structures found across the area.
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I don’t like the looks of that thing.
Ah, Yahoo! News comments:
Oh, well. At least he does not deny that it was built.
I think Phil was down in Salisbury today. Maybe he’ll know what it’s all about.
We know enough about the ancient Egyptians already, and as for the ancient Britons, we don’t want to know anything about them.
Well, Sheila, after all, that was only a thousand years or so after creation, right? Ancient, ancient history.
The stupid, it burns.
It was some time either before or after Jesus, I think. Either way, I don’t want to know about it. I’ve seen Wicker Man. I know what they get up to out there in the English countryside. Start taking an interest in that stuff and before you know it you’re on a shortcut to hell — with maybe a stopover at Burning Man.
vaguely reminiscent of the old Burger King logo, too. Maybe the Burger King is actually the Fisher King, too.
The Burger King as the Fisher King!
“I’ve seen Wicker Man. I know what they get up to out there in the English countryside.”
That was Scotland. A fine distinction to many of our colonial cousins, I know, but important on this side of the Pond.
Thank you, K, for pointing out my gaffe. I am at least as embarrassed as I think Lauren was earlier today when she opined that the image in Deron’s photograph of his wife Amy was very like a whale.
It’s been over thirty years since I saw the film, and I just flat-out forgot not only that all of that jiggery-pokery took place on an island but an island north of that wall of Hadrian’s. Yeesh.