Sun, moon and stars.

This blog entry contains my impressions of visiting Woodhenge and The Sanctuary, plus original notes from Maud Cunnington (the archaeologist who originally excavated these sites). I sat for twenty minutes at first The Sanctuary and latter on in the day, twenty minutes at Woodhenge recording all I saw; the atmosphere, how I felt. I wished to give the myth locations, places where the mythic narrative and the facts, actually meet. The burial at The Sanctuary is ambiguous. It looks like the others found in the Avebury Avenue, which are taken to be male. The body is placed on the North-East side of a standing stone, crouched up...a beaker by its side (same as the Avenue burials). Aubrey Burl thought that it must be a female burial because of the way she was positioned. Aubrey Burl also argued that in the Neolithic mind (and the Bronze Age?) both death and fertility were integrated so that: "The fertility of the ground, the fecundity of women, the spirits of forebears that int...

My journey to Stonehenge takes me past military towns and ominous tracks cris-crossing the road with signs warning of tanks. Latter, sitting on the grass, eating bread and olives, watching the literally hundreds of visitors arrive and circle the monument, the susurration of traffic sounds and wind and traffic is altered by the interruption of military aircraft flying over head, circling low and heading off into the trees beyond. Stonehenge is the perfect Bronze Age monument; The Bronze Age is characterised as a warrior culture and Stonehenge is located within that area of Britain most famous as an army training ground http://thingsinthree.blogspot.com/2011/08/stonehenge-end-of-august-2011.html During the Bronze Age Stonehenge was already old. Stonehenge, it would have seemed, had always been there in one form or another. The car park of my time covers the Mesolithic beginnings of the site and a thousand years from now, British Heritage's gift shop will be just another...