Megaliths

MENHIRS CARNAC, France c B.C. *

The stones vary in height from 6-15 ‘ and the rows are almost 2.5 miles long *

Local legend says the menhirs were enemy soldiers turned to stone by the town’s patron saint. On Christmas Eve the monoliths go to the river to drink, and the gold that lies beneath them is left unguarded.

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Neolithic cultures gave human qualities to inhuman things. Do these stones impregnate the earth? Even the Celts who arrived in NW Europe thousands of years after Stonehenge and Carnac, believed that rivers were formed by urinating giants and islands were form by stones cast from heaven.

A grid for stargazing

CADILLAC RANCH near AMARILLO, TEXAS Ant Farm, 1974

The Brittany Dolmens FRANCE c B.C.

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Dolmens were tombs, houses of the ancestors; their spirits lived in the stone. *

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DOLMEN Ballykeel, Ireland

DOLMEN CRUCUNO, North of Carnac, France c B.C.

Stonehenge England c B.C.

STONEHENGE Salisbury Plain SW England c B.C. 100’ diameter, Stones roughly 13.5” high *

A sacred site prior to the megaliths (c B.C.) barrows surrounded by ditch 350’ in diameter E-W avenue dug, then 56 Aubrey Holes (John Aubrey ( A.D.)) in which cremated remains were buried c B.C. 40-ton Blue stones brought 100 miles from Wales Heel stone (16’ high) B.C. “Beaker people” from NW Europe bring gold, perhaps build iconic outer wall housing U- shape of trilithons of 50-ton sarsen blocks from Marlborough Downs 20 miles away which in turn surround altar stone *

POST AND LINTEL CONSTRUCTIONS: a TENON on the post fit into a MORTISE on the lintel *

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THE HEEL STONE

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