It seems that Stonehenge is rarely out of the news these days. Hardly a week goes by without new ideas and theories about it’s purpose. The recent laser scanning project revelations will no doubt stimulate yet more.
On the other hand, it’s sobering to think that everything that has been written about Stonehenge is speculation and therefore may be untrue. In fact according to this latest theory, it is:
“SCIENTISTS have started a fresh excavation at Stonehenge in the hope of confirming, once and for all, the ancient monument’s complete and utter pointlessness. Recent advances in carbon dating and DNA testing technologies now point to it having absolutely no purpose whatsoever. Henry Brubaker, chief archaeologist at the Institute for Studies, said: “The ancient Britons quarried these giant stones by hand, dragged them hundreds of miles from Wales, lifted them into place, stared at them for a bit, then wandered off and never came back.”
Important archaeologist: “This is just some Welsh rocks thrown up in the middle of nowhere for no bloody reason. It does my head in. If I have to watch one more scraggy hippy dancing round here at solstice, I swear to God I will get a JCB and plough the whole lot into the ground.”
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11/10/2012 at 10:20
Janet Reedman
lol! Except, of course, there IS no ‘fresh excavation’ and I am guessing, no Mr Brubaker…
22/10/2012 at 13:41
calmgrove
As far as I can see, Henry Brubaker of the Institute of Studies is The Daily Mash’s resident catch-all polymath expert. More power to his elbow!
On a more serious note, it’s certainly the case that “everything that has been written about Stonehenge is speculation”, at least as far as its purpose goes. It’s just mind-numbing how every latest theory regarding the ‘truth’ about Stonehenge, with ‘evidence’ to prove it’s astronomical / ritual / constructional / UFO significance, quickly attracts its own die-hard supporters and, in the absence of vigorous and well-publicised counter-arguments, soon achieves the status of accepted fact. It’s all good clean fun, though, isn’t it?
22/10/2012 at 13:52
heritageaction
Absolutely. Its the great leveller, with room for both professors and fruitloops. If only there was a way of knowing which are which!