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Just a quicky of Stonehenge as we passed it in the car yesterday:





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Cool.... I'd really like to see that in real life.

Cool.... I'd really like to see that in real life.

oi me too!

Don't often see pics of it from a distance... what a job that must have been, schlepping those stones out there.  :o

They had help from Aliens!!  ;)

Good one. Blink & you'd miss it. I've been past there a couple of times but never close enough to have a good look. I've heard that many visitors find it a tad disappointing.

Avebury is reputed to be far more impressive. I've never been there either but it has a mysterious association with marmalade.
http://www.britainexpress.com/articles/Ancient_Britain/Ancient_Britain.htm

Avebury is reputed to be far more impressive. I've never been there either

Let's get this straight Doug, you can recognise a 17th C Floridian fort from a single aerial photo, but you've never been to either of the UK's arguably most significant and famous Neolithic sites? I suppose you've never been to Callanish or Skara Brae either

I hadn't been past Stonehenge for quite a while prior to Sunday, but I must say, it was smaller than I had imagined or even remembered - so as Doug said, it was a tad dissapointing.

Cheers,

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I know it's not particularly large or well-fashioned, and I laugh at people who go there expecting to experience something magical... but I still think it's amazing. those people had far more important things to do with their time, yet they carved these stones and carried them from a quarry over 200 miles away (unless you are a fan of the glacial deposit theory) just to arrange them in a grand tribute to the sun and its predictability ... maybe it's utterly pointless, but I find it impressive.

But yes, I've seen pictures of sites with many more stones, erected with similar difficulty.

I know it's not particularly large or well-fashioned, and I laugh at people who go there expecting to experience something magical... but I still think it's amazing. those people had far more important things to do with their time, yet they carved these stones and carried them from a quarry over 200 miles away (unless you are a fan of the glacial deposit theory) just to arrange them in a grand tribute to the sun and its predictability ... maybe it's utterly pointless, but I find it impressive.

But yes, I've seen pictures of sites with many more stones, erected with similar difficulty.

Trust me....when I visited Cusco in 2005 I didn't expect this!





and Macchu picchu was even more amazing... http://www.simviation.com/yabbuploads/alxcco3.jpg

I'd love to see Stonhenge once...  :o

I know it's not particularly large or well-fashioned, and I laugh at people who go there expecting to experience something magical... but I still think it's amazing. those people had far more important things to do with their time, yet they carved these stones and carried them from a quarry over 200 miles away (unless you are a fan of the glacial deposit theory) just to arrange them in a grand tribute to the sun and its predictability ... maybe it's utterly pointless, but I find it impressive.

But yes, I've seen pictures of sites with many more stones, erected with similar difficulty.

Trust me....when I visited Cusco in 2005 I didn't expect this!





and Macchu picchu was even more amazing... http://www.simviation.com/yabbuploads/alxcco3.jpg

I'd love to see Stonhenge once...

schlepping

Nice germanism...

schlepping

Nice germanism...

To me, it's a Yiddishism... but that's pretty much the same thing.

Stonehenge is some sort of calander, just as the egytians built dozen of pyramids and tempels that had similair systems.

Wasnt Skara Brea a egyptian priest settlement? Atleast that is what i remember reading about it.

Wasnt Skara Brea a egyptian priest settlement? Atleast that is what i remember reading about it.

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Not heard that one before, but those Egyptians did get about.......  ;)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skara_Brae