I forgot - Stonehenge

We went here the same day we went to Salisbury, on our first field trip.

Two of the most Frequently Asked Questions about Stonehenge are:

#1:  Why did people put these stones here?

#2:  How did they get them there?

Each stone weighs three to five tons.  Recently the stones were proven to have come from a spot in Wales, over 100 miles away.

Also recently, a group of folks was given ₤100,000 to move similar stones using only the technology the original Neolithic folk would have had.

On the first day, they moved one stone one mile.  They moved this stone 17 miles total.  Then it fell in a river and had to be hauled out with a crane, after which it was put in a botanical garden in Wales.  That was more or less the end of the project.

So we don't know the answer to either question.

If you want the Stonehenge effect but don't want to go to England, you can just visit the closer (and slightly modernized) version, right here in Nebraska:

I can guess at the answer to Question #2 for this version, but only speculate about Question #1.


Cheers!