http://blog.stonehenge-stone-circle.co.uk/2010/11/26/new-stonehenge-book-launched-stonehenge-times-square-bc/#comment-315
Hi Faith thank you for your reply
I don’t know how my comments got on your page, I was only referring the new theory that the small caved balls found in Scotland were used as bearings on wooded tracks to move the stones across country to Stonehenge.
However the mauls are the pounding stones that were used to shape the sarsens, I believe some of them have been found in the backfill holding the standing stones in position, nothing very unusual in that. The sarsens would have had a lot of on site shaping to fit them together so the mauls would have been used in the circle as well as in the quarry. Throwing one or two down the hole with some rubble to hold a stone in place im sure would have been done several times. If you ever work on a building site you see an awful lot of stuff gets buried on site. And seeing as Stonehenge was never finished anyway, and there be no use for any left over mauls if it had been, then they get used in with the back fill.
Tuesday 28 December 2010
Monday 20 December 2010
Q. When should THE winter solstice be celebrated at Stonehenge.
A. on December 21st at sunset.
A few years ago no one went to Stonehenge for the winter solstice, it was only the summer solstice that drew the crowds. Now the winter solstice is beginning to become just as popular, but for the sun rise on the shortest day not the sun set. Both ideas the summer sun rise and set and winter sun rise are complete misunderstandings of what the original religious propose of the monument was!
A few years ago no one went to Stonehenge for the winter solstice, it was only the summer solstice that drew the crowds. Now the winter solstice is beginning to become just as popular, but for the sun rise on the shortest day not the sun set. Both ideas the summer sun rise and set and winter sun rise are complete misunderstandings of what the original religious propose of the monument was!
Friday 10 December 2010
Thursday 9 December 2010
I hate to say it but this is completely wrong
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101130010931.htm
If it were true they’d be many maybe hundreds of the small stone balls in and around Stonehenge. But none have been found as far as Im aware. And these balls are carved, if they were used as some sort of new stone age railway they would be smooth. Where they are found is where there are also the so called cup stones. There is no cup stone at Stonehenge, the cup stones are found in the north and in Scotland and a few other places, its know that the stone circles there were orientated for moon worship. It makes sense to me that the two are connected. The small stone balls represent the moon, and they would be used to place in the carved depressions the ‘cups’ maybe to mark full moons, but certainly to be used in moon worshiping ceremony’s. Many of the cups have concentrically carved lines around them, like mazes,
maybe representing the path that religious ceremony’s would have taken.
If it were true they’d be many maybe hundreds of the small stone balls in and around Stonehenge. But none have been found as far as Im aware. And these balls are carved, if they were used as some sort of new stone age railway they would be smooth. Where they are found is where there are also the so called cup stones. There is no cup stone at Stonehenge, the cup stones are found in the north and in Scotland and a few other places, its know that the stone circles there were orientated for moon worship. It makes sense to me that the two are connected. The small stone balls represent the moon, and they would be used to place in the carved depressions the ‘cups’ maybe to mark full moons, but certainly to be used in moon worshiping ceremony’s. Many of the cups have concentrically carved lines around them, like mazes,
maybe representing the path that religious ceremony’s would have taken.
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