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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;EWC3, post: 4426011, member: 93416&quot;]Yeah - I remember driving my kids to see Stonehenge - and got a Wow! - when it came into view.</p><p><br /></p><p>Moments like that make a guy think he is at least a bit successful at being a Dad.&nbsp; Actually the stuff in Brittany is maybe more impressive – but it is not framed in an empty landscape like Stonehenge.</p><p><br /></p><p>Avebury is a wow too, at least the stones are. To be honest the ditches there rather gave me the creeps. To dig out holes like that - using just animal bones for tools - is a hell of a lot of work. Seemed to me you had to have some sort of Neolithic Stalin in charge of the show to do it. Maybe that’s just my libertarian streak showing through.</p><p><br /></p><p>My point earlier was that although the story Geoffrey told in 1136 was an exaggeration – it seems to be an exaggeration of a true event. Some of the stones were probably brought in by sea from far to the west. Interesting to note that that was (perhaps) remembered in oral culture for maybe 4,000 years</p><p><br /></p><p>Rob T[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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