STONEHENGE MY MEMORABLE VISIT TO THE BRITISH CULTURAL ICON JULY 2010

HI STEEMERS I HAD A MEMORABLE VISIT TO STONEHENGE WITH MY NEPHEW AND NIECES IN JULY 2010. ACTUALLY MY CAR BROKE DOWN IN EXETER A WEEK BEFORE AND I HAD TO COLLECT MY CAR FROM GARAGE IN EXETER AND NEEDED TO RETURN HIRED CAR BACK IN EXETER SO I NEEDED SOME COMPANY ON THIS LONG JOURNEY FROM MAIDSTONE TO EXETER .SO MY NEPHEW AND TWO NIECES AGREED TO COME WITH ME PROVIDED WE VISIT STONEHENGE ON OUR WAY AND WATCH THE SUNSET AT THIS AMAZING MONUMENT.

STONEHENGE IS A PREHISTORIC MONUMENT IN WILESHIRE, ENGLAND, TWO MILES WENT OF AMESBURY AND EIGHT MILES NORTH OF SALISBURY. IT CONSISTS OF A RING OF STANDING STONES EACH WEIGHING AROUND TWENTY FIVE TONNES. ARCHAEOLOGISTS BELIEVE IT WAS CONSTRUCTED FROM 3000 BC TO 2000 BC. THE SITE AND ITS SURROUNDINGS ARE PART OF UNESCO LIST OF WORLD HERITAGE SITES. STONEHENGE IS OWNED BY THE CROWN AND MANAGED BY ENGLISH HERITAGE. STONEHENGE APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH BURIAL FROM ITS EARLIEST EXISTENCE. STONEHENGE IS THE MOST SOPHISTICATED STONE CIRCLE IN THE WORLD.

THE TRUE PURPOSE OF STONEHENGE HAS ALWAYS BAFFLED HISTORIANS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. SOME SAY ITS USED TO CONTACT THE HEAVENS. A SET OF BLUE STONES FROM A PLACE IN WALES WERE TRANSPORTED THERE BECAUSE THEY WERE CONSIDERED TO HAVE MYSTICAL HEALING POWERS. ANCIENT PEOPLE WOULD TRAVEL MILES TO STONEHENGE SO THEY COULD FEEL THE MIRACULOUS HEALING POWERS OF THIS MAGICAL SITE.

STONEHENGE MAY VERY WELL HAVE BEEN BUILT WITH A SPECIFIC PURPOSE IN MIND BUT THROUGH NEARY 5000 YEARS OF HUMAN HISTORY, ITS TRUE MEANING WILL PROBABLY FOREVER REMAIN A MYSTERY. WHATEVER ITS TRUE PURPOSE, IT SEEMS CERTAIN THAT THERE HAS TO BE SOME REASON THAT THE STONEHENGE LANDSCAPE HAS CONTINUED TO MESMERIZE GENERATIONS UPON GENERATIONS LEAVING US NOW ONLY TO WONDER ABOUT WHAT COULD HAVE HAPPENED THERE SO MANY THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO. WHETHER DESIGNED FOR SCIENTIFIC PURPOSES, TO TRACK THE MOVEMENT OF THE SUN OR AS A RELIGIOUS MYSTICAL PLACE OF HEALING AND WORSHIP. STONEHENGE IS A DISTINCT HISTORICAL MONUMENT IN THAT IT REALLY CAN ACCOMMODATE OR PERHAPS EVEN RESIST ANY MEANING WE ATTEMPT TO ASCRIBE TO IT.

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