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   I posted an article last week stating that Stonehenge was ancient by the
time the Celts arrived in the British Isles, but after reading Mr. McGhee's 
article on the so called cultural background of Stonehenge, I think it must 
have been missed or ignored. The Celts DID NOT build Stonehenge. Since
reading Mr. McGhee's article I have done some homework; according to Gerald
S. Hawkins in his book Beyond Stonehenge  the first phase of Stonehenge was
constructed c. 3000 B.C. (about 2200 years before the Celtic culture arose in
Europe and 2600 years before they migrated to Britain). The last phase of
Stonehenge was constructed and then *abandoned* c 1400 B.C. (10 centurys before
the Celts arrived in Britain). These figures are based on carbon 14 dates for
artifacts associated with the various phases of Stonehenge, later dating of
the same artifacts revised the dates I have quoted 500 years earlier. This
means that Stonehenge may have been abandoned 8000 years before the Celts even
existed as a culture! All discussion of the Celts with regard to Stonehenge is
irrelevant! In one of the previous articles on Stonehenge a quote from a book
on the subject said that Stonehenge was built by a *neolithic* culture; the
Celts were an iron age people, yet the article's author went his merry way
discussing the Celts and Stonehenge. 

(My Grandmother's maiden name was McLarin)
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