stonehenge

[TickTockMan]

I’ve wanted to go there for a while now. It looks pretty.




Can you walk among the rocks?

 

[Mike1984]

It's interesting but the road noise is bad .. why don't they build a tunnel?

 

[jackmanor]

THOUGHT THIS MIGHT BE OF INTEREST TO READERS OF THE THREAD:

The Guardian News Service reported this week that a new henge has been discovered beneath the ground surface about 900 metres from the 5,000-year-old stone circle.
The henge was revealed within two weeks of an international team beginning work on a three-year
Stonehenge Hidden Landscape project. which aims to survey and map 14 square kilometres of the landscape around the prehistoric monument.
The survey suggests that the henge was on the same alignment as Stonehenge, and comprised a circular segmented ditch with north-east and south-west entrances, enclosing internal pits up to a metre in diameter believed to have held massive timbers.
The discovery, described as the most exciting in a lifetime, is hiddden in the landscape. Nothing remains above ground.
The archeologist responsible for Stonehange at English Heritage said: "This new monument is part of a growing body of evidence which shows how important the summer and winter solstices were to the ancient peoples who built Stonehenge. The discovery is all the more remarkable given how much research there has been in the vicinity of Stonehenge, and emphasizes the importance of continuing research within and around the World Heritage Site."

 

[unloadonme]

There are, of course, a number of other ancient stone circles in the UK besides Stonehenge. Avebury is probably one of the better known examples.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avebury

 

[winterknight]

It's interesting but the road noise is bad .. why don't they build a tunnel?

They've been trying for the last twenty years.

The last attempt was scrapped in 2007 because the only plan everyone could agree on would cost £540 million more than what was in the budget.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonehenge_road_tunnel

 

[SLOPPYSECONDS]

rocks nice all ova world

ans stonehenge just few years ago
first rock carden? no

but maybe build soemthin useful
modern world go figure

why move mountains whens ya can ( no sayin )

 

[ChickenGuy]

There are, of course, a number of other ancient stone circles in the UK besides Stonehenge. Avebury is probably one of the better known examples.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avebury

Or the Callanish Stones on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callanish_Stones

 

[braex27]

I had wanted to visit Stonehenge when I was in England but when told it was roped off, and I would not be able to approach the rocks and walk into the centre, I decided it was not worth the effort.

Still spectacular to see the pics though!!

 

[kallipolis]

The Preseli Mountains, in Pembrokeshire, West Wales is the site where the blue stones were quarried, and then transported to Stonehenge.

Human history is much more of an enigma than a straight progressive line from the past into the present.