Why does Stonehenge cause hippies to get angry?

Answer 1

Not sure hippies get angry at Stonehenge, but that really requires a definition of a 'hippy' to quantify. However, hippies make archaeologists angry about Stonehenge because they associate druids with the stones and that goes against the Druid's usual customs and practices. Druids like forested, watery places, peat bogs, streams, associating the water with a way to connect with their gods. They would not have felt comfortable around a huge group of stones on a plain with minimal habitation and tree cover. This can to proved to a point with the lack of finds associated with druids. People who visit places drop things, coins, brooches, pins, litter, and these are invaluable at pointing towards who used a site and dating the various phases of use. Stone age and Bronze age artifacts have been found but the kind of items expected from a Druid site are absent. It can also be surmised when the stones were last moved from things found around or under them. It is known, for instance, that the nearby Silbury Hill, a large, round, man-made hill to the north of Salisbury Plain (a mile or so from Avebury, another fascinating perhistoric hengiform monument,) was begun to be dug in the mid to late summer as the wings from flying ants are found beneath the lowest layers and these are around only in late July, early August.

Of course, Stonehenge is not actually a henge. A henge is a structure created with a bank and ditch where, in the reverse of a defensive stucture, the ditch is inside the bank, whereas as Stonehenge, the bank is outside the ditch.