The cutting edge investigation of Stonehenge's celestial connections - which has played
such an important part in the development of archaeoastronomy - has usually been conducted by scholars of impeccable
credentials in their fields, from Inigo Jones to Alex Thom, taking in William Stukeley, Norman Lockyer and Gerald
Hawkins along the way. Yet their work is generally shunned by their modern intellectual peers.
Instead it finds acceptance in what is generally known as the 'fringe', represented typically by Druid orders and
New Age travellers. This paper will look at the adoption of archaeoastronomical theories by the esoteric and New
Age movements, particularly in relation to the Glastonbury and Stonehenge festivals of the 1970s and 80s, and consider
New Age cosmology as it emerged as a focus for radical alternatives in the 1960s down to the eco-protests of the
1990s.