Stonehenge 
Five-thousand-year-old
Stonehenge is the most famous prehistoric site in Europe, but it remains
both a tantalising mystery and a hackneyed tourist experience. It consists
of a ring of enormous stones topped by lintels, an inner horseshoe, an
outer circle and a ditch. Although aligned to the movements of the celestial
bodies, little is known about the site's purpose. What leaves most visitors
gobsmacked is not the site's religious significance but the tenacity of
the people who brought some of the stones all the way from South Wales.
It's estimated that it would take 600 people to drag one of these 50-ton
monsters more than half an inch. The downside of Stonehenge is that it's
fenced off like a dog compound; there are two main roads slicing past the
site; entry is via an incongruous underpass; and clashes between new age
hippies and police at summer solstice have become a regular feature of
the British calendar.
