Saturday 2/5/05
As we walked out to get on the road to Stonehenge, this was the view from the front porch.. I am fairly certain they arranged for this:
Stonehenge was incredible... Even if it's a bit touristy, it was really cool to get to see it with my own eyes
These birds posed for us, then left, then came back and posed again:
Next stop was the prehistoric mound called Silsbury Hill (by the Salisbury Plain)... They have never found any bodies in it, so it's not a burial mound, and they can't guess what it was for, originally It's impressively large, if frustratingly mysterious...
And then we went to Avebury stone circle, which is astoundingly huge... the town is actually built among it. Imagine looking out your living room window and seeing standing stones out there... amazing.
We also had a drink in a pub with a thatched roof. In the us, we do 'quaint' for effect. In england, it comes standard. Anyway, Avebury is very scattered, has a lot of missing stones that are now replaced by markers, and there are buildings among the stones, but this is from the part of it that is fenced off:
Here's a map I found, to give you some idea of the scope of this structure. Each of the small rings in the middle is probably 30' across:
Stonehenge is all behind fences and you're not allowed to walk into it or touch it, but these other stone circles are open and you can walk right into them. They're completely amazing (I keep using that word), thinking how long they've been around and the amount of work that went into making them. It had to take something very compelling to get prehistoric people to transport stones that weigh upwards of 5 tons each, up those hills and arrange them.
Stonehenge was incredible... Even if it's a bit touristy, it was really cool to get to see it with my own eyes
These birds posed for us, then left, then came back and posed again:
Next stop was the prehistoric mound called Silsbury Hill (by the Salisbury Plain)... They have never found any bodies in it, so it's not a burial mound, and they can't guess what it was for, originally It's impressively large, if frustratingly mysterious...
And then we went to Avebury stone circle, which is astoundingly huge... the town is actually built among it. Imagine looking out your living room window and seeing standing stones out there... amazing.
We also had a drink in a pub with a thatched roof. In the us, we do 'quaint' for effect. In england, it comes standard. Anyway, Avebury is very scattered, has a lot of missing stones that are now replaced by markers, and there are buildings among the stones, but this is from the part of it that is fenced off:
Here's a map I found, to give you some idea of the scope of this structure. Each of the small rings in the middle is probably 30' across:
Stonehenge is all behind fences and you're not allowed to walk into it or touch it, but these other stone circles are open and you can walk right into them. They're completely amazing (I keep using that word), thinking how long they've been around and the amount of work that went into making them. It had to take something very compelling to get prehistoric people to transport stones that weigh upwards of 5 tons each, up those hills and arrange them.
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