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Stonehenge
(London 2 hours 87 Miles/140 KM)
Stonehenge,
the most ancient and mysterious place in the UK and the country’s
most important prehistoric monument. Seeing it set against the sky one
can still feel the awe in which ancient travellers stood when they too
saw it for the first time. Even today, having travelled to the site in
a chauffeur driven luxury car, when you stand close to the great stone
circle and look up at the huge stone lintels which sit joining the standing
stones, one has to marvel at the determination and dedication of a society
which not only considered but succeeded in erecting this structure. It
is truly awe inspiring.
The site itself started as a simple earthwork around 3000BC. It was an area ringed with holes about a metre deep and about the same square. The structure we see today was started about one thousand years later. 82 Bluestones were brought some 240 miles from the Preseli mountains in south west Wales, a mammoth undertaking. The stones, some weighing around four tons, must have been dragged on sledges and rollers to the sea and floated on rafts along the Bristol Channel and, using rivers and again travelling overland, brought to the site and erected. During this period the approach to the site was aligned to coincide with sunrise at midsummer. A few hundred years later the Sarsen stones were brought to the sight, probably from a few miles north at Avebury which is itself the site of another prehistoric monument of immense size and significance. Again, aligned with the midsummer sun and, like Stonehenge, it may have had both a religious and astronomical role. Both sites are impressive reminders of a primitive yet highly organised culture which committed enormous resources to its religion and the study of the heavens.
The Visitor Centres provide detailed explanations, layouts and guides.
The site itself started as a simple earthwork around 3000BC. It was an area ringed with holes about a metre deep and about the same square. The structure we see today was started about one thousand years later. 82 Bluestones were brought some 240 miles from the Preseli mountains in south west Wales, a mammoth undertaking. The stones, some weighing around four tons, must have been dragged on sledges and rollers to the sea and floated on rafts along the Bristol Channel and, using rivers and again travelling overland, brought to the site and erected. During this period the approach to the site was aligned to coincide with sunrise at midsummer. A few hundred years later the Sarsen stones were brought to the sight, probably from a few miles north at Avebury which is itself the site of another prehistoric monument of immense size and significance. Again, aligned with the midsummer sun and, like Stonehenge, it may have had both a religious and astronomical role. Both sites are impressive reminders of a primitive yet highly organised culture which committed enormous resources to its religion and the study of the heavens.
The Visitor Centres provide detailed explanations, layouts and guides.
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