It's very difficult to speculate on what the henges were used for (well, it's easy to speculate, more difficult to know). Maybe it was for something (like sport) that personally I wouldn't consider very Serious, but the people involved with would consider very Serious indeed.
You'd still need the help of a lot of people to build the big henges - what about Mayburgh? That'd be perfect to play football in. Easy to build today, but would take years of concerted effort by a much smaller population who would really ahve to believe in what they were doing, and take time away from basic survival tasks.
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