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Miniature Stonehenge Discovered In Wiltshire, UK
CmdrGravy weighs in with exciting archaeological news, "one of the most important prehistoric finds in decades" according to the article: a miniature Stonehenge a mile from the famous site. "Bluehenge," as the find is being called because of the assumed color of its (now-missing) stones, is believed to have been put up around the time of Stonehenge, 5,000 years ago. "All that remains of the 60-ft.-wide Bluehenge are the holes of 27 giant stones set on a ramped mount. Chips of blue stone found in the holes appear to be identical to the blue stones used in Stonehenge. The four-ton monsters, made of Preseli Spotted Dolerite — a chemically altered igneous rock harder than granite — were mined in the Preseli Mountains in Pembrokeshire and then rolled, dragged, and floated the 200 miles to the site on the banks of the Avon in Wiltshire."
Miniature Stonehenge Discovered In Wiltshire, UK
Built by dwarfs, I would presume.
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I'll bet it went something like this...
Artist: Look, look. Look, this is what I was asked to build. Eighteen inches. Right here, it specifies eighteen inches. I was given this napkin, I mean...
Ian: Forget this! F**k the napkin!!
Tell me something...it's still "We, the people"... right?
Pip, pip cheerio. Ring 'round for some scones and tea, eh guvnuh?
No one knows what gods they worshipped, but the alignment of Stonehenge to the solstice shows that the Sun - and maybe the Moon - was important.
Looking at the monument and knowing what it would take to build it, I think it's obvious.They may have worshiped the Sun, but they prayed to Joe Pesci.
You have to pass Stonehenge to reach customers?
What do you sell to the ancient dead?
At last! The fabled gift shop of the druids has been found!
Four-ton stones are miniscule compared to the 50-ton trilithons at big Stonehenge or the over 1100-ton Stone of the South at Baalbek in Lebanon.
It boggles the mind that primitive people would want to erect such monumental structures when smaller stones would have been orders of magnitude easier to cut and transport. As the Romans, the Aztecs and the Maya have shown, it's possible to create impressive monuments with smaller stones. In my opinion, some among the ancient priesthoods had secret knowledge of a technology that allowed them to levitate and transport huge stones over great distances. Too bad they died without leaving a record of it. I have excellent cause to believe that the secret of levitation will be uncovered soon.
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Before Stonehenge, there was Woodhenge and Strawhenge. (But a big bad wolf came along...)
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It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
It's blue and it's a small scale of the real thing.
That's what we call a "blueprint".
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It's only a model.
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Isn't that just the way it goes, you put up a great circle of stones, your house smartly in the middle; the missus, the kids and the in laws are all finally giving you the praise you deserve, and what does your neighbour go and do?
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Bluehenge? sounds like IBM made
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You seem to have started on 'aristocrat', gone via 'edwardian mill-owner' and ended up on 'hackney carriage driver'.
What do you sell to the ancient dead?
Life insurance.
Me failed English...
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It's almost twice as old as the earth!
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
According to the article it was actually built by the same druids, they were just following a a set of instructions that said each stone should be nine spans high instead of the intended 9 cubits high. Needless to say, the head druid was furious at the unveiling ceremony and was reported to have had the stones crushed by a dwarf that wandered by.
Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure everything I just said is completely wrong.
even back then they had problem with dupes. Dang.
But these were not the druids you were looking for...
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