Today visitors experience Stonehenge as a wonder of ancient achievement and enduring symbol of mystery. But Stonehenge was built as a temple – a place of ceremony, of burial and of celebration. The first Stonehenge was simple – just a circular ditch and bank, perhaps with a few small upright timber posts or stones – [...]
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Solstice Stones
Stonehenge is an ancient prehistoric site and has been a place of worship and celebration at the time of Summer Solstice since time immemorial. Hopefully today it will by a Sunny Solstice sunrise
14 Comments CherryPie on Jun 21st 2014
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Salisbury – Day Two
After breakfast we set off for Avebury, taking in Woodhenge along the way. Unfortunately Avebury was a little bit further than we thought. We didn’t have enough time there because we had a timed ticket for Stonehenge at 2pm. The Avebury experience wasn’t helped by roadworks that made access to the main interests difficult. [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Jun 12th 2014
The Daily Mail has an interesting article that shows several of these structures as captured by earth observing satellites. The article points out that many of the worlds ancient structures appear to be built along astronomical alignments.
I will share two photos from the article with you, to see them all you will have to click [...]
20 Comments CherryPie on May 2nd 2013
