Stonehenge
- Visit England's Oldest & Most Mysterious Landmark
Any vacation or momentary
trip to Wiltshire must include Stonehenge. It’s one of the
most historical landmarks of England and it’s presence has
captured visitors from all around the world for decades.
Maybe, one of
the reasons why Stonehenge has such appeal is it’s mystery
because while there has been a good deal of conjecture on what
it is and who built it not one knows quite for sure.
Many say that
Stonehenge is an historic temple, others say a burial site, and there
are also those that believe it was initially built up as a kind of
observatory. We’ll probably never know which of these is
right.
Now, you
can travel to Stonehenge but since 1978 the main stone area has
been cordoned off because visitor interaction was damaging the rocks.
You can nevertheless get really close to it though. This ring of
historic rocks is considered to date back 5,000 years which makes it
all the more incredible that a construction like this could have been
put together so long ago. It would have exacted a lot of time,
organization and manual labour to construct it.
In fact,
it’s considered that Stonehenge was constructed over a 1,500
year time period (starting as early as 3,000 BC). It’s
thought that the stones were bought from Wales (Prescelly Mountains)
which dwells 240 miles to the west of Salisbury. Every stone would have
weighed 4 tons, and would most probably have been pulled by roller and
sledge from Wales to Milford Haven, from which point they would have
been loaded onto boats which would navigate towards Somerset. From
here, they would have been carried on land again to their intended
location in Salisbury.
The admission
price to see Stonehenge is well worth it, and includes an audio-guide.
There are also some sensational views of the Wiltshire countryside from
here.
