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Littlestone
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Re: Henge corrals?
Dec 18, 2005, 22:35
>Wormy Hillock , a henge in Aberdeenshire has an internal diamter of 6.2 m , not an awful lot to sell there .<

A pen for a pig or a goat might be even smaller :-)

I think what Peter is saying here (and I have been saying the same thing elsewhere for sometime now) that we really <i>do</i> have to move away from seeing every little (or even every big) circle as a structure for religious or ceremonial functions. I have no evidence for that of course (other than common sense) but it would seem to me that the protection of livestock would have been of primary consideration back in the Neolithic just as it is today. Trying to find religious/ceremonial reasons for all megalithic structures is actually just pampering to our 21st century need for the 'spiritual' - and in so doing denies the practical (and in my opinion) far more interesting problems our ancestors were faced with on a day-to-day basis.
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