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Title: STONEHENGE -Wiltshire, England
Added: Sep 11, 2008
Author: LearnFree2007
Duration: 3:31
Description:
Quick guideAge estimated at 3100 BCLocation Wiltshire, UK OS Reference SU 122 422Type of stone Bluestone, Sarsen, Welsh SandstoneWorship Lunar, Solar Access English Heritage - there is a charge to visit the stones Extra notes Except on special occasions, visitors are unable to walk amongst the stonesThis was created from Audio made for a British Airways audio cassette tour of the UK South of England.Written and narrated by Blain Fairman in 1990.Audio production by Robert Nichol AudioProductions London.pictures added to this version 2008 by Robert Nichol to create a Youtube videoStonehenge is a prehistoric monument located in the English county of Wiltshire, about 3.2 kilometres (2.0 mi) west of Amesbury and 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) north of Salisbury. One of the most famous prehistoric sites in the world, Stonehenge is composed of earthworks surrounding a circular setting of large standing stones. Archaeologists believe that the iconic stone monument was erected around 2500 BC, however this was not the first stone structure on the siteThe surrounding circular earth bank and ditch, which constitute the earliest phase of the monument, have been dated to about 3100 BC. The site and its surroundings were added to the UNESCO's list of World Heritage Sites in 1986 in a co-listing with Avebury henge monument, and it is also a legally protected Scheduled Ancient Monument. Stonehenge itself is owned by the Crown and managed by English Heritage while the surrounding land is owned by the National Trust.New archaeological evidence found by the Stonehenge Riverside Project indicates that Stonehenge served as a burial ground from its earliest beginningsThe dating of cremated remains found that burials took place as early as 3000 B.C, when the first ditches were being built around the monument. Burials continued at Stonehenge for at least another 500 years when the giant stones which mark the landmark were put up. According to Professor Mike Parker Pearson, head of Stonehenge Riverside ProjectStonehenge was a place of burial from its beginning to its zenith in the mid third millennium B.C. The cremation burial dating to Stonehenge's sarsen stones phase is likely just one of many from this later period of the monument's use and demonstrates that it was still very much a domain of the dead.From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Youtube Comments: 194
isaacthegeek Says:
Feb 10, 2012 - Still standing after around 5000 years. Says something about British engineering, doesn't it?Also, stonehenge isn't really a henge! LOL!
2tooful Says:
Feb 12, 2012 - mr beam built it
Standuble Says:
Feb 18, 2012 - @jordof6 I've been reading about the genetics of the British Empire and according to current understanding the Anglo-Saxon only had minimal effect on the genetic make up of the English.
AcidfartProductions Says:
Feb 18, 2012 - I would try digging under it...
browneye870 Says:
Feb 20, 2012 - Wow.
UKDannyBoyy91 Says:
Feb 20, 2012 - Wow what?
UKDannyBoyy91 Says:
Feb 20, 2012 - Oh of cause you wont say nevermind............
browneye870 Says:
Feb 20, 2012 - "I hope we never find out and it will always be a mystery if we knew it be done thats it it be like... they built it for soso and it was use for this and that.... but this way ...not knowin...are minds can think up anything and its more fun to talk about....if we ever find out what they was built like that for the mysteriousness magical like presence would be gone." -You. Thats wow. It's so bad it's impressive.
sonofherne Says:
Feb 21, 2012 - Correct! they have done one recently that shows a bit more, but even then there's no way there was no wipe out of the indigenous peoples. What they were thinking as saxon dna might not be at all. More saxon dna in the scots. The old idea of deposed celts in Scotland, Ireland and Wales is wrong. England is also "celtic" and in parts used to speak a celtic language up until 900 years ago.
sonofherne Says:
Feb 21, 2012 - Which would tell you what? The interior has already been largely dug, and geophysed. I know because I've seen the results. They know what's under it. Chalk, soil and bedrock. No bunker, no cave with sleeping knights.
sonofherne Says:
Feb 21, 2012 - More like a causewayed enclosure. Stonehenge is a hybrid of megalithic building ideas at a time when we all could work together. Fancy, generations of your kin each working on a part, all but a few never actually seeing the final product. I think it was more about the act of building than what it was eventually used for when it was completed.
sonofherne Says:
Feb 21, 2012 - That's very selfish and I don't think knowing would take anything away from the majesty of places like this. It's a bit like saying, I don't want to know how a car works as I'd soon like to believe it's being propelled along by horses under the hood and a fire breathing dragon in the back.
UKDannyBoyy91 Says:
Feb 21, 2012 - How is it selfish? its just my opinion if we knew about how all the mysterious things on this planet how they came about and why its here etc then it be boring dont you like to think how things got here? all the different ways? thats what makes these stones great and so popular cause we dont know why there here and who did it etc if we KNEW all the long it wouldnt be AS popular but thats just my opinion.
therocknrollakid Says:
Mar 16, 2012 - because shes likes to live with all her beliefs
therocknrollakid Says:
Mar 16, 2012 - This must be the most depressing video from stonehenge
treatsnsweets Says:
Apr 16, 2012 - How far from London is Wiltshire? I'm visiting London this summer, and I would love to see Stonehenge.
DUBxLORD Says:
Apr 20, 2012 - 5/6 hour drive
shygirlnow2011 Says:
Apr 25, 2012 - I wish I had friends in Wiltshire to stay with America is boring me to bits!
PuffyAmiYumi Says:
Apr 26, 2012 - According to Google maps: 88.5 mi, by car it'll take 1 hour 53 mins. By train it's 1 hour 32 mins. I think that's right, not sure but I typed it in google maps and that's what it came up with.
AlexisCapri Says:
Apr 29, 2012 - I'm not kidding, I don't believe in very many things - but you go to Stonehenge and you really do feel "something". The first time a friend took me, I spent the entire journey there mocking her by saying "oooh we're going to see pixies and elves at Stonehenge!!". But there IS something very spooky about the place. I actually found it slightly scary.
AlexisCapri Says:
Apr 29, 2012 - You can stay with me if you ever want to visit
amc1140 Says:
May 21, 2012 - its trippy those people watched the sunlight pass over the rocks as the passing of time itself, they saw their lives go by as sun shining on a rock...
Herpy1000 Says:
May 24, 2012 - Maybe sacrifices took place there?
kenfo0 Says:
May 26, 2012 - "there are a lot of people who come here, week after week...sitting, staring at the rocks...wondering, 'what's wrong with me, sitting in a field looking at caveman rocks?'. Then, they leave sad. Cognitive dissonance later kicks in: either I am a moron for staring at rocks, pretending to understand their meaning, or that was a deeply spiritual experience. Repeat.
Griesmayer Says:
Feb 10, 2012 - OMG is that Martin Sheen narrating?