Update of Australia's contstuction of Stonehenge II.

Sam Richardson short article in the Tenerofe News Online with Canaryislandnews.com. Thoughts on All-hallows, Eve, inclusive of the spanish holiday “El Día de Los Muertos”.'

Other Samhain/Halloween related articles: -

A Brief History of Halloween: From the Blogcritics Magazine on line comes an interesting article written by M. Scott Carter, looking at the histroical perspective of Halloween.

What The Samhain Is Halloween?: An article by Janice Mason in the TrailGazwtte, CO. USA, exploring the festival and celebration of Samhain and Halloween.

How to Honor Ancestors: An article from Mike the Fool, in the opednews relating to the Reformed Druids of America, and gives a glimpse at 'how to Honour the ancestors.

Happy Halloween: From Carroll Country News, Akansas,USA; E. Alan Long 'Two Cents Worth.'

Origins of trick or treat: From the Californoa State University, Sacromento, USA. Article by Stephanie Dumm in 'The State Hornet.'

Samhain: Pagan celebration honoring the dead: From the San Francisco Chronicle, USA. Article by Susan Fornoff.

Halloween does have a spiritual side: From the St Petersburg Times, Florida, USA. An Article by Jack Bray.

An article in the Swindon Advertiser concerning a request for human remians from Avebury to be reburied from the council of British Druid Orders. the article has attracted some lively comments.

Last year archeologists started to unearth what now appears to be Europe's oldest astronomical observatory. The compound, located near the little town of Goseck in Saxony/Anhalt, is estimated to be about 7000 years old and thereby clearly predating places like Stonehenge. Details of the finds were published on Thursday. 

A report from a Daily Mail Reporter in the MailOnline concerning the recovery of a 'toy Hedgehod' excavated from an Iron Age or Bronze Age Grave near Stonehenge.

"Stonehenge is a Bronze Age monument. But was it a burial site, an observatory, or something else? There are large animal bone deposits nearby. Jane Evans suggests the people who used the structure came from thousands of kilometres away."      

(Lead-in blurb for a recent interview on ABC Radio National here in Australia.)

Following is a link to the transcript and audio, plus a couple of other interesting links from there:

Article from the BBC on dating the origins of Stonehenge, and possibly sheding light on one of its functions.

Additional articles also refering to this, available from:-

CNN.com/europe 'Experts solve' mystery of Stonehenge'

Guardian.co.uk 'The magic of Stonehenge: new dig finds clues to power of bluestones'

Smithsonian.com 'New Light on Stonehenge.'

Scotsman.com 'Was Stonehenge a Neolithic nursing home for Europe's sick and ailing?'

Mike Ferguson article in the Baker City Herald online from Oregaon, USA, looks at the Celts and Druids.

Steve Morris from the guardian.co.uk an article concerning the restoration of the chalk figure at Cerne Abbas in Dorset; complete with a discussion concerning the repair work, its many historic theories and inclusive of  an embedded audio to listen too.

Carey Anderson Book review on 'Nox Dormienda (A Long Night For Sleeping): An Arcturus Mystery,' from BC Books - the blogcritics.