Sorry if theres another post like this else where. I've just come back from my first ever visit to stonehenge, There just is something about that place that calls to you. I mean you know its old but its the energy you get from it. You can sit there and quietly look at the stones and drift back to when it was built and used, your mind takes you. Anyone else got any thoughts and feelings on the site.
First time I went I was disappointed to tell the truth... They charged me a fortune to get in the place and tried to flog me stupid stone henge t-shirts and shit.. then the whole place was fenced off and i couldn’t get anywhere near it.. Instead i was forced to learn about the place through a stupid thing looking like a mobile phone. The great whopping big road though the place also spoiled the atmosphere. I don’t know how to describe it i think the place had been to.... argh i dont know i couldn’t think deeply about it at all because of all the stupid distractions. If they took away the stupid staff at the gift shop and hired some security guards instead so you could go within 500 meters of the actual stones it might be a wee bit better.
I spent 10 years going to each solstice and each equinox. There was always conflict and people dying. It was nearly ten years ago it dawned on me that I've never had the great time some other people experience, so why did I spend years fighting along side hundreds of others for the right to go there?!!! I suppose just because it is our right! No one can own this ancient and sacred site, it belongs to all of us. I havent been back since. So glad that people can go there these days with reletively little trouble. Next year however I shall, along with many others, return to the area for the 20th aniversary of the Battle of Beanfield ( http://tash.gn.apc.org/sh_bean.htm ) . http://norlonto.net/index.cfm/action/articles.view/itemID/56/print/TRUE Maybe I'll be able to get a positive feeling from the place like so many other people do. FREE THE STONES!!!!!
Ive always found Stonehenge to be ovverated, ive been a few times an each time its just been a big anticlimax, an area of major importance but at the end of the day some carefully balaced rocks designed to worship the sun. On the other hand i do like driving past it on the motorway, i think its good that people are given the chance to see it without having to stop. An on a slightly more random note in Shrek 2 Princess Fiona has a Stonehenge poster on her bedroom wall
iv never actually been iv only drove past it but i think the most amazing thing about it is how it was built i mean its built from rock only found in ireland HOW did the celtic druids get the stone there??? without any means of transportation
i drove past stonehenge a couple of days ago. i reckon it was a giant sundial, but yes it does intrigue me into how they actually built it. does any1 know what henge actually means? jennyflower xxx
A henge is an earthwork. *sigh* This is really poorly informed. The bluestone at Stonehenge comes from Wales, not Ireland. And the druids post-date Stonehenge by thousands of years, and had nothing to do with building it.
Stonehenge is cool, i really hope I can go there someday.A friend of mine had his first mushroom trip at stonehenge, that must of been wild. I really wanna go to easter island, how hard is it to get there? Alot of people think aliens or something made it, but idk. They're still really crazy and I wanna go see them.
We're probably both right: http://www.fact-index.com/h/he/henge.html and also: http://accessibility.english-heritage.org.uk/default.asp?wci=Node&wce=8391 Paragraph 11
I live right by Stonehenge and it is quite a cool place..When you see it at sunrise or sunset it is amazing and to think it was built before any technology is just mad......Definatly worth making a trip to see at some point
Not really. You're talking about the derivation of the word (which I agree has its origins in 'hang'). Its use today relates to earthworks. Ask any archaeologist what a henge is and I'll bet you a week's wages they'll tell you it's an earthwork.
Yeah, Stonehenge is like an imprisoned stone circle. With the A303 within spitting distance and the disgusting visitors' centre, the vibe is fucked.
