An illustatration from the following site:

http://www.bamjam.net/Ireland/Newgr.html

” These pits known as the Aubrey Holes………cremated bones were associated with many of the holes but this can hardly be a complete explanation of their function. The holes were set out with such accuracy along the circumference of a circle 284 ft 6 ins in diameter that the largest error in their spacing is 21 ins. This is a great deal less than the cumulative error we would expect if the holes had simply been measured of from pair to pair; evidently some other geometrical method must have been used.

“If the precision and purpose of the Aubrey Holes should seem baffling the mystery is deepened by perhaps the most inexplicable of all earth circles….. Maumbury Rings….. (Dorchester)…. inside the ditch diggers located a circle of 44 shafts dug in places to the astonishing depth of 35 feet down into the solid chalk. Timber posts can scarcely have been intended to fit holes of this depth while in many case nothing at all was found at the bottom of the shafts. Clearly a ring of pits signified something more than a functional means of disposing of the dead”

The writer was confident in the seventies that excavations had clearly established that the Aubrey Holes never held posts or stones. So how convincing is the evidence that they were stone holes as 3000 BC would make them concurrent with the digging of the ditch and there is no evidence of bluestone in its primary fill?

I don’t see how the only view that looks like a pig (i.e from the front) should determine the species. Perhaps it will be used to confirm Established views about Stonehenge – the SRP detailing how important pigs were to the “feasting” at Durrington.

I don’t mind vigorous disagreements on Eternal Idol, but you’re going to dare to criticise Mr Pitts, then you’ll have the common courtesy to get your facts right beforehand and keep a civil tongue in your head.

“CHILD BURIED WITH UNIQUE CARVED PIG
A tiny carved chalk pig was buried with the remains of a young child
over 2,000 years ago within sight of Stonehenge. The bones of the infant
were in a pot dated to 450-100BC (Iron Age). The carving may have had a
ritual significance or have been a toy”

Mr Pitts says PIG so thats that then…

here’s a photo of Aubrey hole 7 after excavation.
You can see the damage to the hole where the stone(?) was levered out.
PeteG