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Claim: Stonehenge Moved From Wales and Rebuilt

Tuesday, 16 February 2021, 20:45 MJA Uncategorized 25

NeverYetMelted:

The Guardian reports on an interesting new discovery concerning Stonehenge.

An ancient myth about Stonehenge, first recorded 900 years ago, tells of the wizard Merlin leading men to Ireland to capture a magical stone circle called the Giants’ Dance and rebuilding it in England as a memorial to the dead.

Geoffrey of Monmouth’s account had been dismissed, partly because he was wrong on other historical facts, although the bluestones of the monument came from a region of Wales that was considered Irish territory in his day.

Now a vast stone circle created by our Neolithic ancestors has been discovered in Wales with features suggesting that the 12th-century legend may not be complete fantasy.

Its diameter of 110 metres is identical to the ditch that encloses Stonehenge and it is aligned on the midsummer solstice sunrise, just like the Wiltshire monument.

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25 Comments on Claim: Stonehenge Moved From Wales and Rebuilt

  5. It’s a fascinating pile of rocks. When I was a young lad I went there with my parents. Back then, you were allowed to touch the stones and sit on them for family photographs. Now, visitors are not allowed near them without guides. Stone circles can be found all over the British Isles, but none are as impressive as Stonehenge.

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  14. I visited Stonehenge once when I was in England in the late 1980s. All the pictures showing peaceful grassy fields are bullshit. There’s a highway not 50 yards from the actual rocks with cars whizzing past, and you park at the tourist trap on one side of the road and take a tunnel underneath it to the rocks on the other side. Half the rocks are patched (badly) with concrete and rebar, and the site sits in the middle of a sheep pasture. The only thing missing is actual grafitti on the stones themselves.

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  22. the guardian is a left wing rag , and will downplay britain at every chance they get , stonehenge built 3=4 thousand years ago by the ancient britons as a sight to mark the summer and winter solstice , most stones were local , some bluestones cut and then moved from wales , pre dates the druids

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  23. Maybe Merlin got the Flying Negroes from Egypt to carry the stones?
    Seems plausible …

    You ARE aware that the Flying Negroes were Britain’s first inhabitants?
    It’s a true fact – you could look it up.

    izlamo delenda est …

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  25. @China

    I saw it in the 1970’s. There is graffiti on it, or rather carved into it. No painted graffiti.

    There was a Roman Legion stationed in SW Britain 2000 years ago, so I think some of the carvings were done by Roman soldiers.

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