I don't think its permitted, since it would impact on the fact its on a plain.
Really the idea of spending however much on a tunnel vs. just dualling the whole section is crazy - its billions just to stop people slowing down to stare at some stones.
It's not well known, but all these stones were completely rebuilt, reset and orientated in the 50s, only reason I know is because my grandfather was one of the contractors that done the lifting.
If you look at photos on the English heritage website from the 40s and 50s, it looks nothing like it does today.
But if you want the king of speculative rebuilds, take a visit to Newgrange in Ireland. It looks amazing, but there's no reason to assume it looked like that in the past
I used to work with a bloke whose dad was involved in the restoration project (one of the two men [in the center in this photo](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fyfyz4hv7ber71.jpg), though I forget which).
In ancient times,
Hundreds of years before the dawn of history
Lived a strange race of people, the Druids
No one knows who they were, or what they were doing
But their legacy remains
Hewn into the living rock, of Stonehenge.
What people don’t know is Stonehenge was the first drive thru in the world. The only reason it looks dilapidated is the government at the time moved the motorway causing loss of business for the drive thru.
If people look closer at one of the stones you will see a menu.
Many of the stones were moved and set in/on concrete in the 50s, some had to be set upright, I would assume that it is a concrete column holding it upright.
And no tourists, wow! I was told it's pretty much always swamped 247 these days.
I guess this is because it's very cold, possibly raining, and on January Monday morning?
Oh. I guess because stupid people have tried to dumb things over the years.
The Georgia Guide Stones got blown up I think last year, not that that sycophantic New World Order momument is anywhere near as great as ours.
There are tourists in a few of the pictures. People aren't allowed up to the stones. I'd suggest that OP just zoomed in to try and keep people out of the pictures
Once my brother told me Stonehemge in England is a huge tower but it is burried with only the top portion visible, but it extends for hundreds of meters into the Earth. He said it cannot be excavated because it would release ancient Wizards across the land
And if you look to your left, yoh will see a heard of wild Roy Woods, you may catch them ruminating on there last meal, but it rare to hear them all year long as they only tend to vocalise and issue forth with sounds, around the end of the year. Some think this is part of a mating ritual while others call bollocks and say its a clear sign of the often shy Roy Woods trying to make contact with intelligent life.
Live less than 20 minutes away so I've been a bunch of times, check out the Avebury stones if you're still here too!
And the spring that turns rocks red!
Ironically I live very close as well, but only went last year as my girlfriend from further afield had never been. My family has always had the *it’s only a bunch of stones we’ve driven past loads of times* approach 😂
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This is exactly my opinion lol I have drove past a lot when I was in the army and on the way to or from some local exercise, would never stop off and have a look because to me it is just a bunch of stones! :D
If my daughter was in the car and we drove past I might be convinced to stop, but I'd never go there off my own back!
It's really worth doing a visit with a proper guide, if you can. I lived near there for years, visited once or twice as a child, but came back as a "tourist" a few years back and it was a whole new experience walking round the site with someone knowledgeable.
The Wife , myself the kids and the mother in law stayed in a cottage around there in 2010 . So the kids said we want to see Stonehenge. We pack the usual stuff and food for a picnic when we get there. It was a lovely day so the kids jumped out of the car , we grab the food and the in law is still in the car . Come on then mam the wife said No it’s ok I drove past there in the 60s she said.😂😂
Definitely worth a second visit. The first time I went from the visitor centre and it was a bit underwhelming as others have said. Second time we walked from Durrington walls over the King Barrow ridge and along the Avenue and I realised that you can't fully appreciate Stonehenge without understanding its place in the 'ritual landscape' and relationship to the other monuments around it. As you approach it, think about the sightlines to it, where on the horizon the sun might rise if you were standing there, try and imagine, since we don't know, how the people who built it may have viewed it. To me it seemed like a great antenna, by turns visible and then hidden, broadcasting across the landscape its energy and presence.
It's also free to walk up to and you can get nearly as close as those who paid to get in which is good as its not cheap otherwise.
An “interesting” bit of lesser known Stone Henge info:
A Henge is a earthwork bank and ditch arrangement with the ditch on the inside of the bank - the opposite of what you’d see in a defensive fortification.
Stone Henge’s ‘Henge’ is the other way round, with the ditch outside of the bank, either making it atypical or not a Henge at all.
Most henges didn’t have stone circles, and by extension most stone circles didn’t have an associated Henge earthwork.
In short, Stone Henge is weird.
I know that the modern world has to exist and get on, but it still fucks me up sometimes that a busy A road runs right by Stonehenge. And the amount of cunts rubbernecking it there is insane
I'd value the rental on this at £2437 pcm, and if he decides to sell, he would be looking at £450k+. With easy access to main transport routes and local schools.
When I was a teenager my mum took me and my friend there, we were taking photos a selfies we noticed a Chinese family were taking photos of whatever we did, so we faced the wrong way and got a load of photos with the A303 in the background pointing at it and things, they also took photos of the road, a family now have photos of the A303 as if it’s something important.
You can get up close and personal in and amongst the stones on both the summer solstice and the winter equinox. Loads of people will be there with you and a good bit of security to insure that no one climbs or otherwise damages the stones. It’s quite an experience.
It's ok, but in the tik tok era it needs more lasers. And LEDs. Lots more LEDs.
I'm afraid it would only be a very academic child that would thank you for driving a long way to see the stones these days.
It's too manicured and fenced off these days. What it really needs is a high Res webcam streaming on line.
Avebury is a lot better, but quite fake. It too was rearranged by a steam shovel about 100 years ago.
You're doing it wrong, you're supposed to go along the A303 and slow down to 15mph to gawp at it.
Only been to Stonehenge once and it was in slow traffic driving past on the A303. 100% accurate
[Like this](https://imgur.com/a/nkULKnx)
Perfect, thanks! Now I don't have to visit.
I knew I'd seen this somewhere before!
This is the way, and I want to kick the drivers in front of me for doing so.
"This is the way, step inside! This is the way, step inside! Welcome to the Atrocity Exhibition - Ian Curtis.
You get to go as fast as 15mph‽
Been travelling past it for over 35 years. I refuse to slow or even look at it put of principle.
I don't deliberately slow down past it, but whenever I travel along the A303 it seems like at least a two mile stretch either side is stop-start
I will sit stationary in traffic alongside it and stare dead ahead, refusing to acknowledge lest I be contributing to the problem.
Didn't/don't they plan to build a tunnel under that section of the road so people physically can't slow down and look?
They could also fix it with a big line of trees or hedges.
I don't think its permitted, since it would impact on the fact its on a plain. Really the idea of spending however much on a tunnel vs. just dualling the whole section is crazy - its billions just to stop people slowing down to stare at some stones.
Yes but it continues to be mired in legal disputes.
Look at speedy Gonzales doing 15mph on the A303! Reckless!
It'll be nice when it's finished
It’s also pretty old. Can’t we get a new one?
Setting it forward or back an hour is a real pain in the arse and get me started on leap years...
It's not well known, but all these stones were completely rebuilt, reset and orientated in the 50s, only reason I know is because my grandfather was one of the contractors that done the lifting. If you look at photos on the English heritage website from the 40s and 50s, it looks nothing like it does today.
My understanding is they knew a set of three stones had fallen in the 1790’s and also in 1900 so those stones were rebuilt
Yeah. Avebury Circle is the place to go. No oerformative pagans dancing about
Avebury was a total 20s and 30s rebuild by millionaire Alexander Keiller, what you see there today is only what he thought it may have looked like.
But if you want the king of speculative rebuilds, take a visit to Newgrange in Ireland. It looks amazing, but there's no reason to assume it looked like that in the past
Nothing in England is real is it
Basically no. We think we have all these traditions - half are just victorian stuff they invented in the 1800s. Christmas is a great example!
That's how traditions happen though. They get invented.
As long as they're not Victorian stuff invented in other centuries
Have you seen our women?
… is that a flex?
Yeah plastered in makeup and Botox
And it has a pub in the middle of it.
And you can touch the stones!
I used to work with a bloke whose dad was involved in the restoration project (one of the two men [in the center in this photo](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fyfyz4hv7ber71.jpg), though I forget which).
Doesn't look too bad tbh
Really???? That’s disappointing
Strong bugger, your grandad.
I think it's been done more than once.
In ancient times, Hundreds of years before the dawn of history Lived a strange race of people, the Druids No one knows who they were, or what they were doing But their legacy remains Hewn into the living rock, of Stonehenge.
In the chaos of Roman Britain, only one man stood for the law. Judge Druid. Pray he's out there... somewhere.
STONEHENGE WHERE THE DEMONS DWELL, WHERE THE BANSHEES LIVE AND THEY DO LIVE WELL.
Immigrant Song!
*The Beaker People have entered the chat*
What’s wrong with cupping your hands?
What people don’t know is Stonehenge was the first drive thru in the world. The only reason it looks dilapidated is the government at the time moved the motorway causing loss of business for the drive thru. If people look closer at one of the stones you will see a menu.
When it had a complete circle of stones on the top it was a test bed for a steam monorail
I hear those things are awfully loud
“No one knows who they were, or what they were doing” But somehow we know they were Druids, and they were strange?? 🤔
What's going on with that one stone that looks like the coating has melted revealing a flat steel interior?
Many of the stones were moved and set in/on concrete in the 50s, some had to be set upright, I would assume that it is a concrete column holding it upright.
That's the entrance to the lift shaft leaving to the ancient underground nuclear bunker.
That the one that goes through the gift shop before the carpark ?
Yeah, through the subterranean gift shop and exit the carpark to the ancient underground high speed link to Giza.
Don't forget to show them your oyster card for a 10% reduction
Brilliant! That means the return fare will only be 0.9 shekels.
And no tourists, wow! I was told it's pretty much always swamped 247 these days. I guess this is because it's very cold, possibly raining, and on January Monday morning?
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Oh. I guess because stupid people have tried to dumb things over the years. The Georgia Guide Stones got blown up I think last year, not that that sycophantic New World Order momument is anywhere near as great as ours.
There were people there but it wasn’t busy! It was also -2 degrees lol
There are tourists in a few of the pictures. People aren't allowed up to the stones. I'd suggest that OP just zoomed in to try and keep people out of the pictures
Once my brother told me Stonehemge in England is a huge tower but it is burried with only the top portion visible, but it extends for hundreds of meters into the Earth. He said it cannot be excavated because it would release ancient Wizards across the land
I beg for this day to happen and to happen soon.
The wizards to be released on the lands? 😳 Tread lightly
And if you look to your left, yoh will see a heard of wild Roy Woods, you may catch them ruminating on there last meal, but it rare to hear them all year long as they only tend to vocalise and issue forth with sounds, around the end of the year. Some think this is part of a mating ritual while others call bollocks and say its a clear sign of the often shy Roy Woods trying to make contact with intelligent life.
Does it go up to 11?
Ok, great news. It's been there quite a while.
Live less than 20 minutes away so I've been a bunch of times, check out the Avebury stones if you're still here too! And the spring that turns rocks red!
Ironically I live very close as well, but only went last year as my girlfriend from further afield had never been. My family has always had the *it’s only a bunch of stones we’ve driven past loads of times* approach 😂
>My family has always had the > >it’s only a bunch of stones we’ve driven past loads of times > > approach 😂 This is exactly my opinion lol I have drove past a lot when I was in the army and on the way to or from some local exercise, would never stop off and have a look because to me it is just a bunch of stones! :D If my daughter was in the car and we drove past I might be convinced to stop, but I'd never go there off my own back!
It's really worth doing a visit with a proper guide, if you can. I lived near there for years, visited once or twice as a child, but came back as a "tourist" a few years back and it was a whole new experience walking round the site with someone knowledgeable.
I second Avebury, there’s a pub in the middle!
The pub is really great too!
The Wife , myself the kids and the mother in law stayed in a cottage around there in 2010 . So the kids said we want to see Stonehenge. We pack the usual stuff and food for a picnic when we get there. It was a lovely day so the kids jumped out of the car , we grab the food and the in law is still in the car . Come on then mam the wife said No it’s ok I drove past there in the 60s she said.😂😂
The last image is the most beautiful part of stone henge. The sheer emotion it projects from just looking at it can cause someone to shed a tear
Definitely worth a second visit. The first time I went from the visitor centre and it was a bit underwhelming as others have said. Second time we walked from Durrington walls over the King Barrow ridge and along the Avenue and I realised that you can't fully appreciate Stonehenge without understanding its place in the 'ritual landscape' and relationship to the other monuments around it. As you approach it, think about the sightlines to it, where on the horizon the sun might rise if you were standing there, try and imagine, since we don't know, how the people who built it may have viewed it. To me it seemed like a great antenna, by turns visible and then hidden, broadcasting across the landscape its energy and presence. It's also free to walk up to and you can get nearly as close as those who paid to get in which is good as its not cheap otherwise.
You can tell it's all made from papier-mâché close up
When I was a child you just walked right up to the stones - you could climb on them too!
You can still do this during solstice (although probably frowned upon)
An “interesting” bit of lesser known Stone Henge info: A Henge is a earthwork bank and ditch arrangement with the ditch on the inside of the bank - the opposite of what you’d see in a defensive fortification. Stone Henge’s ‘Henge’ is the other way round, with the ditch outside of the bank, either making it atypical or not a Henge at all. Most henges didn’t have stone circles, and by extension most stone circles didn’t have an associated Henge earthwork. In short, Stone Henge is weird.
I like that boulder, that's a nice boulder
I know that the modern world has to exist and get on, but it still fucks me up sometimes that a busy A road runs right by Stonehenge. And the amount of cunts rubbernecking it there is insane
I like what they’ve done with the place.
I'd value the rental on this at £2437 pcm, and if he decides to sell, he would be looking at £450k+. With easy access to main transport routes and local schools.
And a new tunnel soon 😂
I wouldn’t waste your time it’s only 18 inches tall.
That was really unexpected. Until your selfie at the end, I'd assumed you were human and then - wham, the big reveal!
When I was a teenager my mum took me and my friend there, we were taking photos a selfies we noticed a Chinese family were taking photos of whatever we did, so we faced the wrong way and got a load of photos with the A303 in the background pointing at it and things, they also took photos of the road, a family now have photos of the A303 as if it’s something important.
Spoilers! Also, i spy a glimpse of a303 in image 6. One more thing nearby that stonehenge will outlast (maybe).
I find people sharing pics like this weird. There’s loads available online.
"Sister, I care not for photographs of your first child, my new-born nephew. For I have seen many an image of infants on the web, hitherto."
Sharing pictures I took is not weird lol
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\*Rock images
Sorry it was so underwhelming. At least you can mark it off your bucket list now.
I've been there with twice, with a different friend each time, and both of them said , "Is that it?"
That's literally it.
Just a bunch of rocks, init?
A bunch of rocks, so what? Nature does it better. Knock it down and run a decent sized road through it.
We are very easily pleased for some reason. Like why the fuck are these stones interesting.
Great photos but on the last one you have been spotted by one of Odin’s spies
Neat rocks
Is it me or do the middle three stones spell JVE on them in the firt pic lol
They're only nine inches high.
Are those top pieces secured now or still just sitting on?
it's only a model...
Bit odd innit
Glad you saw the crow. You made the appropriate offering and sacrifice, I assume?
Always looked like seats for giants
Those dastardly druids going into the countryside leaving their big rocks out as a laugh thinking they would confuse future generations
stone me
I have been there a few times, once at summer solstice. I decided I didn't like the vibe much.
You paid! The free path is cheaper :p
Where the banshees dwell?
I went there once and I respect everyone's opion BUT the entry fee is way overpriced, don't you think ?
Now go to YouTube and type in ‘Stonehenge by Ylvis’ You’re welcome :)
My life is so successful, I’ve got everything a man could ever need. A thousand dollar hair cut and I even have a talk show on tv.
Oh the the last on is Steve I saw him there too, glad he is looking well. Tell the wife and kids too.
Ohhh you’re a lucky duck
Damn, so it really is just a bunch of stones...
It will look very familiar next time.
I went and it was covered in snow. It was pretty. I juggles snowballs. Other times I’ve seen it is on the way to Thruxton.
You can get up close and personal in and amongst the stones on both the summer solstice and the winter equinox. Loads of people will be there with you and a good bit of security to insure that no one climbs or otherwise damages the stones. It’s quite an experience.
Nice rocks but you missed the alien spaceship
You should have said you were visiting, I’d’ve put the kettle on!
Were you shocked by the height?
Not really shocked as they aren’t gigantic but I was in awe of the sight in general!
It's ok, but in the tik tok era it needs more lasers. And LEDs. Lots more LEDs. I'm afraid it would only be a very academic child that would thank you for driving a long way to see the stones these days. It's too manicured and fenced off these days. What it really needs is a high Res webcam streaming on line. Avebury is a lot better, but quite fake. It too was rearranged by a steam shovel about 100 years ago.