Stonehenge, a prehistoric sanctuary of peregrination
The stone circle of Stonehenge was erected does thousands of years and has generated interminable debates on if it were a temple, a sacred site of burials or including a species of astronomical computer of the prehistoric times. But professors Geoffrey Wainwright and Timothy Darvill have their own theory: Stonehenge, said, was a species of original Lourdes, that it attracted pilgrims of all Europe.
“We are right several to suppose that the stones were erected as it leaves from a belief in a process of cures”, Wainwright said to journalists congregated in the Society of Antique dealers of London.
Wainwright and Darvill, first in excavating in the place in more than 40 years, said that the key of its theory was the double stone circle of fedespalto, a rare mineral clay similar to the limestone stone, constituted by double carbonate of lime and the magnesia. That stone circle is in center of the monument.
Fedespalto was dragged or taken in almadías from Pembrokeshire in Wales to the plains of Salisbury in the south of England. Those stones were very appreciated due to their presumed curative properties, as it demonstrated a small mountain to it of laminillas that the scientists found during their excavations.
Those laminillas finished buried in tombs of the zone, a demonstration of the fascination of the people with those stones, said Wainwright. But the test does not reside only in stones, but also in the bones. Skeletons found in the zone show that their carriers suffered of serious injuries or diseases.
“The people who came to the monument of Stonehenge had great afflictions, to say it with courtesy”, said Darvill.
The evidences, said the investigators, indicate that Stonehenge was a species of sanctuary and that people of all parts of Europe went to that zone trying you cure for their diseases, but also noticed that they do not discard other alternative theories.
“It could have been a temple, including a treatment center”, said Darvill. “As Lourdes, for example, continues being a religious center”.
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