But concerning the ‘Henge, I was also taken by the site, and by the sight of the stones. There is a kind of ethereal perplexity about the place that had me wondering as I wandered. Back then you could walk right up to the stones but were discouraged from touching them.

By the way there are smaller versions of Stonehenge around the country. There are the Avebury circles which we visited as they were not too far from our place of lodging at Blockley. Also, as my journal has it, there is, somewhere, Woodhenge, and the Durrington Walls.

Your justified to conclude that these sights were used for ritualistic sacrifice and ceremony. Essentially they were birthplaces for various forms of religion. As places of historical conjecture places like Stonehenge are not just fascinating, they may still hold certain social understandings. As axis’ of ancient energy…suspect the energy as sacrificial.

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