Work week has ended and we’ve started to look for places to visit for the coming weekend. Weather was good for outdoors locations and we picked Stonehenge as our first.
We haven’t checked anything about the place but location before we were on the road. Once arrived we discovered it was nearly £20 per adult to get to the stones, which seemed quite expensive on the first moment. This was the time when I have discovered there is an annual membership to access 400 historic locations around UK and is significantly better deal than paying for a single spot. Without hesitation we went for annual subscription and surely will start visiting many more historic locations shortly.
Quick facts about Stonehenge
- It was built from stones, weighing around 30 tonnes, brought from hundreds of kilometres away by ships.
- Moving the stones could have involved hundreds of people.
- It was built around 3000-2200bc
- Not much is known what Stonehenge was used for, however there were cremated remains of 150 people found in the earthwork enclosure. This seems to have been an important structure and important people were buried around as indicates the valuable jewellery and weapons were found in round barrows together with burials.
- It is thought that structure could have been built by slaves.
As always, the impressions flow gallery with picture locations is available further below.
