Scots helped build Stonehenge as part of pagan feast

[icymist]

ANCIENT people came in their thousands from as far away as the Highlands to build Stonehenge and celebrate the winter solstice, researchers have said.

Experts suggested the gatherings were something like “Glastonbury festival and a motorway building scheme at the same time”, as people spent periods each year constructing the site and celebrating massive communal feasts.

The findings overturn the belief that Stonehenge was built as an astronomical calendar or observatory, said Professor Mike Parker Pearson, from University College London.

It suggests the act itself of building monuments was key to those who constructed the site, uniting people from across Britain.

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