On the plains
forest deep
springwater wells up
fills a hollow
where Aurochs drank
So came our mothers and fathers
shooting arrows
flinging spears
to take abundant meat
Settling close by
they found a special magic
for flints taken from the waters
turned colour
to a wondrous
startling
Pink
And history began
Copyright © 2019 Kim Whysall-Hammond
………Blink Mead near Stonehenge appears to be the site where everything started. Algae in the waters nearby turns the surface of flints a truly shocking pink. It is strongly suggested that this is why the whole landscape of Sailsbury Plain became sacred, culminating in the biulding of Stonehenge.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blick_Mead
…and an Auroch is a very large cow…. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurochs
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Not entirely sure of “our ancestors built stonehenge” argument? The area is well planned. They did it all because the algae turned pink? Really, not convinced?
Nice poem though and the ideas provoke my thoughts. Thanks! Cheers Jamie.
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This pond is unique in what is does to flints. The suggestion by archeologists is that this ‘magic’ and it’s significance to those who fisrt found it over 6,000 years ago was possibly why so many monuments were built of Salisbury Plain and the very beginning of a several thousand years long sequence of building. The Stonehenge we see today is not what was originally built — and new surveys have recently shown the remains of other circles near it…..
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If I found a place where the water turns flint pink, I’d think it was pretty special too. Besides, everyone knows that Stonehenge was built by aliens to mark the location of the Pandorica.
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….yes, but they put it there because of the pretty pink rocks…. ;)
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