STONEHENGE.

From: History Today | Date: March 1, 2001| Author: | Copyright information

HOW DID THE STONES GET THERE?

Aubrey Burl explains how the myth of the stones transported from south Wales to Salisbury Plain arose, and why it is wrong.

HISTORY IS FULL OF ENJOYABLE myths but Stonehenge has too many. They mutate. Hardly had modern scholars got rid of the pre-Roman druids than those soothsayers reappeared in the guise of 3rd-millennium BCE astronomer-priests who are said to have designed the great circle as a celestial computer for the prediction of eclipses.

There are other common fallacies. The Greek explorer, Pytheas of Marseilles, who provided the ...

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