"Doctor John" <joh### [at] homecom> wrote in message 
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> From what I've read and (I think) understood, the latest research
> suggests that Stonehenge was associated with death and possibly rebirth.
> The open side is oriented with the setting sun on the winter solstice.
> ...
> BTW I find it amusing that the modern "druids" might be celebrating
> midsummer's day in the wrong place.
>

Also, I've just read that there's no record of Druids before 200BC, so the 
modern folk are perfoming rituals for which there's little historical 
evidence, probably in the wrong place, facing the wrong way, at the wrong 
time of year. Still, anyone can make a mistake.

Chris B.

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