Pipford4d ago
THANK YOU, Ronald Hutton, for finally clearing up for me exactly what a fucking 'henge' was, before we applied it to Stonehenge (from "Pagan Britain", 2013)
Show threadPipford4d ago
When I was 16 we holidayed in Wiltshire and visited Stonehenge late one afternoon. When the chap came to tell us it was closing he said we could nip back in an hour or so and climb in if we fancied.
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@anandamide I visited Stonehenge when I was just out of University, with three good friends. There were no fences anywhere then. We arrived at 7am, not long after sunrise, and there was nobody at all there. Just us, plus ten thousand sheep. We left when the first tourist bus pulled in.
Apr 6 at 7:41pmWeb
Show threadPipford4d ago

@northeyes tbh the whole site is a national embarrassment, it has a bloody road running right by. There are plans to sort it but responsibility for the monument and environs falls between about 4 different parties so things are even more glacial than usual.

One day I'll get there for a solstice.

Also Avebury is much better 🙃