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  • Stonehenge is a collection of prehistoric stones in the English county of Wiltshire.

  • It is one of the most famous sites in the world situated in the midst of the Neolithic

  • and Bronze age movements, amongst several hundred burial mounds.

  • It’s heaviest stone, scientifically known as sarsens weighs around 50 tons. That’s

  • around the same as 12 Range Rovers. The stones were brought down from Marlborough Downs,

  • 20 miles from their final resting place and it took 600 men to move just one stone.

  • The smaller stones are called bluestones, weighing 4 tons each. These rocks were dragged

  • and pulled for over 150 miles from the Preseli Hills in Wales. It’s believed water transport

  • was used for some of the journey but your guess is as good as ours as to how men carried

  • this monstrosities. It took 1,600 years to build Stonehenge. There

  • are over 20 different types of sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous rocks including bluestones,

  • sarsons and welsh sandstone. After years of extensive research the reason behind and how

  • Stonehenge came about remains a mystery.

  • It’s over 5,000 years old and became a world heritage site in 1986. The national lottery and the government pledged £57million back

  • in 2002 to bring it from a state of a national disgrace to meet its world heritage site status.

  • Stonehenge has been an official place of worship for Druid and pagan religions. It’s for

  • this reason that it is closed to the public at Solstice so pilgrims can perform ancient

  • religious practices.

  • Over two million people have visited Stonehenge in the last two years. It’s most recent big name to pop by was President Obama who

  • called in after the NATO summit held in Wales last week. For years, visitors could touch

  • and walk around the stones, but this came to a halt in 1977 when scientists discovered

  • that they were seriously eroding. Visitors can now walk around them from a short distance

  • with the exception of the winter and summer solstices and the spring and autumn equinoxes

  • as well as special bookings throughout the year when they can get close by. 20,000 people

  • stay overnight on the day of the summer solstice on June 21st each year.

  • Stonehenge also has another name. Giant’s Dance because the stones were thought to be

  • erected by the devil himself. Who knew? Gold star for those of you who got that one. In

  • the 18th century, people used to rub scrapings from the stones on their wounds because they

  • said the rocks had healing properties. Do you have something you want to know more

  • about? Let me know below and I’ll pick one for next week. In the meantime, don’t forget

  • to subscribe. See ya.

Stonehenge is a collection of prehistoric stones in the English county of Wiltshire.

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