...I'd have had them broken up into slabs, and sold them as unique, historically-valuable kitchen counters: "The Man Who Bought Stonehenge And Gave it Away".
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...I'd have had them broken up into slabs, and sold them as unique, historically-valuable kitchen counters: "The Man Who Bought Stonehenge And Gave it Away".
We visited the site back in the 70s just before we came home for good. While looking at it from the walk around (back then they didn't let you go in among the stones because so many people had chipped pieces off the stones and painted graffiti on them), some British guy next to me said, "I don't know what I expected, but I expected more than just a pile of rocks." I thought then, how can you look at 5,000 years of human history and only see rocks? It would be like looking at the Giza pyramids (which we haven't visited and wondering why the Egyptians made them to look like Madonna's bra.
ReplyDeleteMaybe the fellow was hoping some Druids would pop out from behind the rocks and conjure up some spirit beings.
ReplyDeleteInteresting, indeed.
ReplyDeleteYeah, Rebecca, some people don't consider just what those ancient builders went through, putting up Stonehenge. Even with today's technology, that would be a non-trivial challenge.
I would use it to build a fort.
ReplyDeleteYou'd all be invited over for S'mores.
We have 20 thousand year old aboriginal sites with carvings nearby, but it takes a lot of time to tune your eyes to really see them, when things are really old and in the open air.
ReplyDeleteHow do we know they're that old? A local archeologist dug through the layers and established a chronology of different styles of stone tools.
I took some friends to see our kangaroo carving recently
https://www.bestofthebluemountains.com/aboriginal-sites-in-the-blue-mountains-you-can-actually-visit/
but at first it just looks like another rock, and also depends on the light.
Over the years I've learned to spot them and even discovered some small sites nearby not publicly listed. I have a couple of stone tools on my desk here, one even has a ground edge used as a hand axe. The other has 'conchoidal fractures' where someone's knapped it to get an edge, with maybe thousands of years of weathering patina over the ancient handwork.