[mowo]

I recently heard that the stones used to build Stonehenge were transported there from Wales. Does anyone know how this conclusion was reached?
Or a link to a site concerning the facts currently known about Stonehenge?

[Void]

I believe the rock was matched with somewhere in Wales, ie they had to ship it across or run it miles over land.

This site is about how stonehenge was (supposedly) made

Coincidently I live in Wiltshire and have been to stonehenge once or twice.

There is a less well known stonecircle around Avebury which I have travelled through a few times. It is made of many more smaller stones and is spread out over a huge area. There are stories of huge stones changing position in the night, sometimes onto roads crashing cars

From Avebury you can also see Silbury hill which is 130ft high and was made by hand over 4000 years ago for some unknown purpose. The hill is so old that there is ancient folklore about how the hill was created by even more ancient people.
Silbury hill

There are also many barrows dotted about all over the land for miles around. These are moderately high elongated hills, some as long as 150ft. Supposedly they are the burial places of ancient kings (we are talking very ancient ie 7000+ years ago). I believe one has been excavated but I can't remember its name and you have to enter it like a cave. The barrows were where Tolkien got the idea of the undead barrow wights that stalked Frodo on the barrow downs in the first book of the Lord of the Rings. That bit didn't appear in the movie as it was largely irrelevant to the story, but its in the book.

There are supposedly ancient ley-lines which connect these monuments and others. These lines are supposed to contain some sort of power and weird things happen along them (such as crop circles and other stuff).

Needless to say all these monuments of unknown purpose mean hundreds of folklores and legends about them, allthough i dont know many.

[Tommy]

Mowo,

The stones at Stonehenge fall into three catagories: there are the Sarsen Stones which make of the outside circle; the Trilithons which are the huge stones that would have been within the Sarsen stone circle, and it is these stones which have the horizontal stone on top; and there are Bluestones which were thought to have been erected in an oval shape within the Trilithon circle. This explains it a little better.

As for where the stones came from, it is the Bluestones that are thought to have come from Wales, or in the Preseli Mountains of South Wales to be more precise. According to some sources this is the only place they can be found.

Here is an interesting discussion we had on Stonehenge a while ago, and how the reconstruction it has undergone in more recent times.

[Void]

cool thanks

[mowo]

Yes, thanks for all your help. I actually live not far from Stonehenge and am quite ashamed that I know little about it....

[Blood Angel]

Stonehenge is exactly 19.5 degrees on the earth, and is placed exactly where the most leylines crossover in the entire world. Other useless facts: 19.5 degrees on mars is the middle of mount olympus, 19.5 degrees on jupiter is the middle of the giant red spot, 19.5 degrees on neptune is the middle of the dark spot.

[bathory]

[Blood Angel]

I think it doesn't move, i think the spinning of jupiter makes it seem like it moves..although i'm no astromener, maybe someone should look that up...O_o;; don't look at me either, i just read it somewhere..

[Void]

Stonehenge is exactly 19.5 degrees on the earth, and is placed exactly where the most leylines crossover in the entire world. Other useless facts: 19.5 degrees on mars is the middle of mount olympus, 19.5 degrees on jupiter is the middle of the giant red spot, 19.5 degrees on neptune is the middle of the dark spot.

Hmm I can't put my finger on it but I get the feeling there is a pattern here

[secondhand]

[mowo]

Hey! you live nearer than me! I live in Dorset.

[secondhand]

Cool, I work in Bournemouth. Bummer of a commute really but I can't be bothered to move!!

[Undead]

I think they were giant croquet hoops used by a race of anicient giant people who lived in Dorset. They all died of Gigantisim.

I think stone henge is something people think too hard about. I think it was just a gathering place which was spectacular at the time.

[mowo]

[ambyglam]

it was the meeting place of the taltos!