Julian Cope presents Head Heritage

[quote="BuckyE"]

So, in my opinion I feel that there is much evidence that our ancestors took a very significant, in some cases overwhelming, degree of care to ensure their burial monuments - where possible (an important caveat) - were placed apart from their normal day to day surroundings in 'just the right spot'. Open stone rings - i.e. those with no apparent burial function, so assumed to have functioned as 'meeting places'(?) - would, I guess, have been subject to different siting criteria.... easy access, perhaps via, or at least in the vicinity of water, near established routes to facilitate the exchange of axes... featuring celestial alignments (where available - but a must for RSCs, I would have thought) to allow some priest-engineered theatre...