Archive for March, 2007
Once you have seen Stonehenge, it is impossible to banish from your mind the daunting, primaeval image of uprights capped by lintels, whether they be the inner trilithons or the surviving uprights and lintels of the outer stone circle; the very simplicity of the architecture places it in the same immediately unforgettable class as the pyramids of Egypt.
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As I’m sure I’ve made clear before now, my technological abilities are pretty much limited to being able to type and turn my laptop on, but every now and again, I get to look at the statistics for this site. My aim from the very start was to present detailed and hopefully engrossing original material on Stonehenge, but I was warned that most people’s attention span couldn’t cope with more than two or three short sentences before they went elsewhere for stimulation.
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When I first published the original story on Inigo Jones’ lost Altar Stone from Stonehenge, I presented what I thought at the time was the bulk of the evidence for a convincing case. I did not seriously expect further evidence in favour of what I had to say to come in, but to my surprise, it has continued to do so at a surprising rate.
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As well as digging up the original illustration of a stone being chiselled in two at Stonehenge, Pete Glastonbury has now located this fascinating section of Andrew’s and Dury’s Map of Wiltshire, 1772. Yes, we all know that a picture’s worth a thousand words, but I’d suggest that this particular illustration was worth quite a few more, especially when we study the fine detail and wording in the centre of the picture and when we bear in mind the following:
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Millions of us watched the stunning lunar eclipse a few days ago, either as it was happening or else later on the news. Our ancestors went to the most enormous pains to construct certain elements of Stonehenge so that these arrangements in stone would capture at least two events related to the sun – the midsummer sunrise and the midwinter sunset. As they clearly devoted so much time to observing the comparatively slow changes in the sun’s position, it is impossible to imagine that they did not follow the movements of the Moon with equal intensity.
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If there is a faint but not inconsiderable chance that the stones at Berwick St James once stood at Stonehenge, then in my opinion, they deserve to be investigated to the fullest possible extent, using any and every means at our disposal. If there is a faint but not inconsiderable chance that they once constituted a single stone described by Inigo Jones in the seventeenth century as an “Altar Stone”, then it is difficult to overestimate their importance to us all.
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When dealing with something such as an investigation into the origins of the stones at Berwick St James, no piece of evidence is too small or insignificant to be overlooked; all that matters is that we continually add to our sum total of knowledge on the subject. Earlier today, I received two extremely interesting emails from Jim Fuller of Amesbury in Wiltshire, who had read about the story of the Altar Stone in the Amesbury Journal.
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