Daily Archives: 28/11/2008

Bamboo henge, Rotterdam

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Bamboo Stonehenge replica built in Rotterdam for an arts festival. What a great cooperative effort! We couldn’t find much text about it in English, but there are several videos, including this one, and some sites with photos, here and here. Look at it lit up in the night:

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Along with the Doorhenge video, this makes the idea of cooperative building of large henge replicas look very appealing.  What it lacks in likeness to the original Stonehenge it makes up by bringing in the group dynamic that must have been involved in the building of the original, in a way we have seen with no other replica. Score: 8 druids!

Straw echo henge

Rare item: a henge replica at Stonehenge! This lucky person, Leon Reed, saw this 12 years ago and fortunately for us saw the meta-henge possibilities. We have found no other pictures so far in which a henge replica stands close enough to Stonehenge to appear in the same picture. Thank you, Mr. Reed!

Have to give this one a good bunch of druids, for the situation and a game attempt at reproducing the current state of the monument. 7½ druids for this straw henge, partly for the haiku-like visual juxtaposition of megalithic timelessness and the fleeting seasons of the field.