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Description: Stonehenge is a Neolithic and Bronze Age megalithic monument located near Amesbury in the English county of Wiltshire, ... more
Stonehenge ... about 8 miles (13 km) north of Salisbury. Its geographical location is 51°10′44″N, 1°49′35″W. It is composed of earthworks surrounding a circular setting of large standing stones and is one of the most famous prehistoric sites in the world. Archaeologists think that the standing stones were erected between 2500 BC and 2000 BC although the surrounding circular earth bank and ditch, which constitute the earliest phase of the monument, have been dated to about 3100 BC. The site and its surroundings were added to the UNESCO's list of World Heritage Sites in 1986 in a co-listing with Avebury henge monument, and it is also a legally protected Scheduled Ancient Monument. Stonehenge itself is owned and managed by English Heritage while the surrounding land is owned by the National Trust.

Newest Review: ... the A303 in an underground tunnel and closing the section of the A344 that passes Stonehenge, thus improving views over the site and hopefully reducing pollution damage from all the passing cars. Only recently (December 2007), however, a parliamentary statement has concluded that this work would cost a staggering £540m, which "would not represent best use of taxpayers' money", so we ... more

 ... are really back to square one on that score. It is very obvious that *something* needs to be done; the problem is, the various stakeholders in this monument cannot agree what that something should be. VISITOR SERVICES Following the trail of brown Engl...more

collingwood21
Crowned Review Stonehenge: Collingwood21 Gets Stoned (2998 words)
by collingwood21 - written on 06/02/08 (Very useful, 202 readings)
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Every year on the summer solstice, an assortment of druids, pilgrims, pagans and other expectant travellers flock to Stonehenge in the hope of witnessing what is rumoured to be mystical sight. If the morning is clear, they will hope to see the midsummer sun rise between two of the great sarsen uprights, in line with the monolith of the heel stone at the far side of the circle. At this moment there will be much singing and rejoicing amongst the visitors, much wringing of hands amongst the custodians that all this frivolity doesn't damage their World Heritage Site, and much shuffling of feet by photographers as they try to make it appear that this alignment does actually ...

marandina
Crowned Review The Day I Got Stoned (Again) (1742 words)
by marandina - written on 04/04/06 (Very useful, 279 readings)
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***Introduction*** It was whilst trying to come up with something constructive to do during the school holidays that the thought of visiting Stonehenge suddenly popped into my head. I vaguely remember being a visitor for the first time way back when whilst I was still at school (that may well have been during the Stone Age). My hazy recollection of the ancient monument featured a graffiti-laden collection of stones and a shop full of school kids on the rob in nearby Avebury (not guilty, m’lud). Still, the rest of the family had never been so we decided to risk it even if most reviews I’d read hadn’t exactly been that complimentary and I still remembered being ...

Richada
Crowned Review Stonehenge: A PILE OF OLD STONES - SEEN BETTER DAYS? (2387 words)
by Richada - written on 12/10/05 (Very useful, 361 readings)
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Hopefully this will be one of my more topical reviews, as you may have seen back in the summer on the TV news, or read in the press, that the long discussed and very expensively planned road tunnel under the famous monument has now been scrapped. Why? On the grounds of cost, pure and simple. And there ends the latest in a very long line of debateable issues surrounding this, the world famous ancient monument of Stonehenge. Issues that have been discussed and argued over for probably the 5000 years since the original builders arrived on site. Having visited Stonehenge as recently as July (2005), I decided that now was the ideal time to ...

 

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