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Genre: Travel & Events
Date of upload: Feb 25, 2023 ^^
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Ceremonial chalk axe head perhaps? I remember seeing some time ago a long documentary on Neolithic structures and it discussed the Woodhenge circles and how they relate to Stonehenge. Woodhenge is also solar aligned as well. I am pretty sure at that in the documentary they were just the shadows of the post holes and not concrete representations. Really interesting. :)
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My imagination kicked in with the chalk axe. I started speculating reasons why someone might have made it. I came to a rather whimsical thought. What if it was a toy? An axe for a little kid. Chalk is light, couldn't really hurt much with it. Maybe it was used to get kids used to the idea of using and taking care of an axe. Maybe there weren't more found yet, is because the majority of them were broken by the kids before they got their stone axes. Using chalk, once again, fairly delicate, could have taught kids to take care of their axe, because a stone one would take so much time to make, giving it to someone who wouldn't take care of it, would be a waste of all those hours of work.
It was probably just ceremonial, but I like my imagination's take on it as well.
Either way, another awesome and interesting video. Thanks for sharing.
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Great video and story telling (as ever).
I must be honest though - I can't say I agree with the decision to take a magnificent ancient site and fill it with lumps of concrete to aid visualisation. There must have been a better way. It seems a very "local council" style cost minimisation type decision.....chavhenge and all that . Sorry if I'm being too harsh on them.
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@JohnHoworth
1 year ago
Seems so sad that many people only ever visit the stones at Stonehenge and don't explore the landscape. The area is full of ancient monuments which must have had a lot of meaning in the past. People complain that Stonehenge is small and you can't go up to the stones, but the ritual landscape is massive and there are many theories about how the monuments were connected or were contemporary. Thanks for highlighting this site
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