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From: barnett@ut-sally.UUCP (Lewis Barnett)
Newsgroups: net.nlang.celts
Subject: Re: A Question about Celtic matters
Message-ID: <3717@ut-sally.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 5-Dec-85 11:31:55 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec  5 11:31:55 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 6-Dec-85 07:51:24 EST
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Reply-To: barnett@sally.UUCP (Lewis Barnett)
Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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Keywords: Druids Stonehenge
Summary: Druids didn't build Stonehenge

In article <3549@pur-ee.UUCP> cromwell@pur-ee.UUCP (Robert L Cromwell) writes:
>
>	My roommate is curious about the Druids.  Other than saying,
>	'They built Stongehenge, and so they obviously had it together
>	mathematically and astronomically', I can't come up with much.

Though it's a popular misconception, the Druids didn't build Stonehenge.
I'm not up on the Druids, per se, but Stonehenge is believed to have been
built by a people referred to as the Beakers.  They were named after
beaker shaped pottery that is found littered about places where they
used to live.  As best I recall, the construction of Stonehenge is
dated between 1800 and 1500 B.C.  Had the Celts made it to that part of
the world then? (I guess that proves I'm not really up on the Celts, 
either!)

Lewis Barnett,CS Dept, Painter Hall 3.28, Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX 78712

"Frankly, there's something about reality that gives me the shivering willies!"
						-- Hank the Hallucination --

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