[Mr. Jeeves]

It would be funny if it turned out to be a play fort some Roman prefect had built for his kids. ;)

[blam]

Unravelling The Mysteries Of Stonehenge

[j. earl carter]

Did whales build Stonehenge?

[Jimmy Valentine]

Every one knows that the stones were ensorceled into their place by Merlin for the benefit of the Druids. He raised them up from their quarry miles away, made them dance and set them down where they remain today.

Anyway that is as good a story as any I ever heard about how they were raised up.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

“we went on to Woodhenge”
Next they will be going to Clayhenge. Then Silverwarehenge! On to Rubberhenge! They’re saving Toadhenge for last.

[Zionist Conspirator]

Obviously it was the Good People who built Stonehenge.

[PzLdr]

Ave! Imperatorum!

[norton]

So,

All the theories and tales about Stonehenge might be based on examination of a much older site, 'tidied up' and moved around by much later Mediterranean invaders, then left alone a few centuries for modern researchers to misinterpret.

I love it when that happens!

[EggsAckley]

Great thread, blam! And I’ve decided that I should try to seduce Mr. Geoffrey Wainwright. He’s the cutest guy I’ve seen in a long time. He has eyes that are just captivating.

Oh well, I might be a little too old for him. ~</;o)

[Flashman_at_the_charge]

Maybe it’s the remnants of a huge stone baked pizza franchise?

[caveat emptor]

It was Obelix and friends.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Some years ago, the Smithsonian figured out a much less labor intensive way for large stone blocks to be moved. By putting rounded wooden sections, held together with pins, on four sides of the block, you turn a rectangular stone into something like a wide axle with two wheels.

By doing so, you can move large stones much faster, with fewer laborers, over greater distances.

Interestingly, the technology to do so is even simpler than the technology to cut smooth stones, which would explain the unevenness of Stonehenge.

[decimon]

Another Roman coin? If I lost money like a Roman I’d be bankrupt. Maybe they just did this to mess with our heads when we dug this stuff up. ;-)

[SunkenCiv]

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[bert]

I’ll bet there were vendors at Stonehenge hawking honeyed mead and sweet cakes to the visiting Romans who came out on holiday to see the spectacular stones .

[BenLurkin]

No.

[eleni121]

Earlier than Roman.

Many archeologists believe that Stonehenge is a temple to the sun god, as described by the classical historian Diodorus Siculus who cites the fourth century BC GREEK geographer, Hecataeus of Abdera, in a key 1st century classical source.

AND here is the legend:

A classical legend associated with the Greek Oracle of Delphi is related to Stonehenge’s past. It states that the oracle at Delphi functioned for only part of the year because, for three months around the winter solstice, the site’s sun god Apollo) went to the “land of the hyperboreans” (literally “the land of the people beyond the north wind!”), which is generally believed to be Britain.

Significantly, Stonehenge is aligned with the winter as well as the summer solstice.

The Greeks knew about this place long before the Romans ever got there.

[wildbill]

“Yeah, Reg, what’d the Romans ever do for us?

“well, there’s the roads and Stonehenge.”

“that goes without saying”