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BrigantesNation
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Re: Wood from the trees
Aug 04, 2003, 16:56
"you could stand on the bank and keep an eye on everything within the henge."

I expect in the earliest times thats exactly what happened - you found a hill surrounded by scrub and you watched your sheep. But would you build a henge? knowing that after just a few days the sheep will have stripped the grass and you'd need to move on?

Another thought passed my mind, linked with the meeting points - drove points - safe locations to park yer sheep on route to market, parhaps the market as well. But I've got to say that does not really match the surface evidence. Firstly, the henges would be divided up into smaller sections I think in all this discussion we are forgetting how many sheep a tribe were likely to have - perhaps 40? perhaps 30 going to market per year? 15 sheep per go. that's not a lot of sheep - could you afford to build a henge as a temporary refuge for so few sheep? No, it had to be a collective effort - many sheep farmers, in which case they would be arguing about the same rights of pasture.
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