The extraordinary history of Stonehenge

[Still Waters]

Stonehenge has stood in the English countryside for 5,000 years, but over the millennia its fortunes have repeatedly risen and fell.

After starting life as a religious site, the stones became a crumbling and neglected relic - before becoming one of the world's top tourist attractions in more recent times.

Now a new exhibition reveals the extraordinary history of Stonehenge, and the different ways it has been interpreted by millions of visitors.

http://www.dailymail...rose-again.html

[jamesjr191]

I'd love to visit the site sometime. bet a man feels small among all those stone pillars.

[Sir Wearer of Hats]

I'm reading Peter Ackroyd's "Foundation" about the Early (Pre-Plantagenet) history of England.

Two things stuck out - firstly he said that all roads led to Stonehenge (could have been a metaphor for how the culture on the Isles would inevitably have built something like Stonehenge) and that it was the most sustained building project ever undertaken on the British Isles.

[Leonardo]

Like every other building project in the British Isles it went massively over time, was probably massively over budget and even when completed had to be constantly upgraded because it was no longer fit-for-purpose!

[acute]

Like every other building project in the British Isles it went massively over time, was probably massively over budget and even when completed had to be constantly upgraded because it was no longer fit-for-purpose!

... Later, it was privatised, then sold to the french.