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On the 2nd August a small group of Druid Priests representing HAD met close to the site of the Ridgeway Hill Mass Grave. Led by Christine Cleere (Vixxen), Lead Priest of the Gorsedd of Cor Gawr, Helen Tarrant (Rainbow) and one other walked along the ancient pathway in time with a slow drumbeat. Unable to get as close as they would have wished to the site of the grave due to the closure of the pathways and deep excavations, the circle was formed overlooking the scar in the …
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Stonehenge | Honouring The Ancient Dead
Earlier in the summer Mike Pitts and Julian Richards of the Riverside Project contacted HAD to inform us of a dig into Aubrey Hole VII in which fragmentary human remains excavated between the wars, mostly from the ditch, had been deposited. They wanted to do this to test the bones using techniques not available before their reburial to ascertain a date of death and place in which the deceased had lived before being buried at Stonehenge. This was in support of the theory that Stonehenge …


