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| The Sheers Family Hanging Out at Stonehenge. |
It truly is an incredible sight. Stones of such an immense size sitting in a little dip in fields of the greenest green grass. The wind blowing quite strongly across the landscape. The A360 & A303 motorways within metres of the foot of the circle. Boardwalks circling the stones with 9000 people a day visiting.
It is a place of conundrums and irony and yet it still maintains a truly magical feel about it.
We all really enjoyed our couple of hours spent here listening to the history and theories behind Stonehenge. The most common being that it is a calendar using the sun to reflect the months and seasons. As we walked around it was hard to believe that the civilisations of the Stone and Bronze Ages, between 6000 and 3000 years ago, once inhabited the area.
We're hoping to return to Stonehenge before we leave England, if not this time then when we come back in 11mths.
Tilly's favourite passage from the Audio Tour we did: If you face Stonehenge and turn in a full circle, even if Stonehenge and all it's stories weren't there, there would still be something magical about this place - but its a secret.
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| The Motorways running alongside the World Heritage Site. There are plans to have this all changed back to it's 'natural state' with the A360 road removed (the one on the right), the fences taken down and the visitors buildings relocated. A shuttle would then ferry tourists to and from the site. Anything would be an improvement - and from the plans we saw the whole area would be returned to and seen as it should be. |
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| Once upon a time this was how the Stonehenge looked. |
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| Can you see the faces hidden in the stones? |
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| Tilly listening to her Audio Tour of the site. |
