Stonehenge~ Englands Lourdes.

Samjaza · Stonehenge~ Englands Lourdes.

A google of latest news from our collection of pebbles in Wiltshire/Hampshire reveals it as being the site where thousands of years ago people carted the ill and infirm for a spot of healing. This all to be revealed in aforthcoming BBC programme.
I bet the people who carted them there ended up having healing for bad backs.
Anyway Google it, latest breaking news.......

Raymond

Why do these bloody scientific/sceptic lot have to pull everything apart? Why can't they just enjoy something for what it is?

david hobbs

I Finlay got around to watching Timewatches program on Stonehenge and it was interesting to learn a little more about the monuments history.

It seems that the area was occupied as long ago as 7000 bc.

However.......

It never ceases to amaze me how a bit of pottery and a few bones mount up to an entire theory of both the site and the reason that it was built.

I know that we are all curious about the past but I sometimes think that archaeologists should be novelists.

I am not saying that they are wrong but I am saying that from very little they make very much.

I think that the reason is simple.

An archaeologist without a good theory is a no mark, they will never be famous as there is no theory to pass on.

Everyone wants to be a celebrity.

Raymond

This is why I never bitch about Most Haunted. Like MH, Timeteam has to come up with the goods.

All TV is ruled over by one God.

Ratings.

david hobbs

True Raymond but I hardly think that two eminent archaeologists would invent something to help the BBC get a higher program rating.

I do of course realise that editing can play a major part but in truth these guys posit the theory that Stonehenge was a healing centre.

Based on what.

A body found three miles away and some stone chippings. Unless I missed something.

Raymond we could sit down have a few beers and come up with some bull and I bet it would sound just a feasible.

Raymond

Mr. Hobbs I'm sure we could do that without the beers.

With all the hoo-haa made about this dig (not to mention the money the BBC have shoved it's way) these 'eminent archaeologists' are hardly likely to declare they're none the wiser than when they began digging are they?