‘Showroom Dummies’…

Isle of Arran, Sunday, 30th October, 2022

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Incredibly, there were still more circles

we had yet to see!

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I am reminded of our sojourn at Callanish

on the Outer Hebridean Isle of Lewis.

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And the inevitable question,

what is really going on at such sites?

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They can really only sensibly be observatories.

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And that level of sophisticated social

organisation is not necessarily

one which our culture is happy

about assigning to their culture.

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More fool our culture.

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This landscape without the monuments

appears, well, pretty pointless actually.

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And the individual sites are too closely

packed together to represent separate factions.

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Time, it is true, may be a factor…

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But when factored in yields

an even greater preponderance of monuments

in the form of wooden structures now decayed.

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So, it’s an Ancient Observatory,

or it’s an Ancient Stone Circle Showroom!

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