Just curious what folks know about it. Are there historians or experts among us? Today traditionally, thousands of people gather at the site to celebrate the summer solstice or the longest day of the year. I’ve never been to the U.K. but would like to someday. Stonehenge is one of the places I’d like to see when I get there. Who built it? Why? Why does it exist? It’s got to be one of the weirdest of the world’s mysteries.
Bruce
Bored at work today so I found this from the Discovery Channel. Lots of info there.
Those questions you asked about who and why and so on are still unanswered in some people’s opinions.
I’m not a historian but I do know its
a)old
b)mysterious and
c)cool.
d)oh and has funky link with the sun leading some to believe it’s some sor tof calander.
There are some great folk tales about it too which I head about on the audio tour when I visited, one including a giant who paced around it.
Did you know it has a trough and a ridge around it? And the site is bigger than just the stones, as I think there is another circular mound nearby that may be linked.
Also it’s common pop-knowledge that it sits on a ley line, and it ties in with the ‘The Government is building Roads on Ley Lines’ conspiracy theory, as apparently the road that passes stonehenge has been rebuilt closer and closer to it, and now they are planning to pass under it ‘to recreate and preserve the original landscape around it’… or so they say…
I hope that’s vaguely helpful, just keep in mind no one has officially decided the whos, whys and whats
I was there …
(don’t have my photos digitized yet)
It was once surrounded by forest.
So, whoever created it had to cut,drag,lift the stone, thru dense forest.
Some say the druids made it, but thats not fact.
It’s an impressive structure.
They had roped off the area some time before I visited. So, you can’t get close anymore.
(Visitors used to actually walk around, touch it.)
It’s the first thing I visited upon arrival.
Why must it have been built? Maybe the forces of nature arranged the stones that way. 
Now, where did I put my Throwing Spanner?
I went to Stonehenge last year when coming back from a friend’s house in Winchester. I hadn’t realised exactly where it was until I zoomed past it on the A303 at about fifty metres distance. I decided to visit on the way back as I’d never been before.
I returned the next day on the most beautiful evening, the cloudless sky glowing red with the setting sun. If there ever was the perfect atmosphere to see the stones, that must have been it.
My enthusiasm waned as my wallet emptied because it wasn’t cheap to get in; for the price of Stonehenge you could go round York or Durham cathedrals twice, or Salisbury cathedral once and get a truly massive ice-cream afterwards.
A tunnel leads under the road to the field with the stones in. The path heads towards the stones but then curves away, leaving you to admire them from a distance. I believe you can get close to them if you go on the solstice, but from behind the rope the power and massiveness of the stones just wasn’t there; they looked impressively heavy, the stones on top must have taken some getting up there and the circle was very precise, but any sense of scale and mystery was destroyed by the distance. The large numbers of people and the traffic zooming noisily by on the main road didn’t help either.
I ambled round hoping that a combination of light and perspective would suddenly bring the stones vividly to life, but it never came. I got back in the car and drove home.
Two weeks later I had reason to visit Salisbury, about seven miles south of Stonehenge, and went to see the cathedral. Now that was impressive. Standing at the western end looking up at the massive but intricate roof stretching away in to the distance left me utterly speechless, which Stonehenge never quite managed to achieve.
Stonehenge seems to be on the itinerary of every tour of Britain but it comes pretty low down on my list of favourite places here. I’m a sucker for cathedrals, but I believe for good reason; I once said to a Japanese friend who travels around the UK a lot that if she could go to one of the greater British cathedrals and not emerge feeling moved I’d get in the car right there and then to take her to another one. I haven’t had to yet.
Ah, there’s my spanner; it seems to have got stuck in all these works… 
Phil
That was going to be my recommendation more or less. If you go to Stonehenge, be sure to take a tour of the Salisbury Cathedral. See what a massively tall 750 year old building looks like! I was more impressed with that. This is surely in part because there are so many unanswered questions about Stonehenge, and the fact that you have to admire it at a distance.
I went there with a group of unicyclists before Unicon VIII in 1996.
I went there. It would have been eerie but there were tourists and police everywhere.
Stonehenge is the remnants of a giant BC wheel.
Haha I give it 5 minutes before Evan shows up insulting the layout of the rocks.
people have made it out of cars and refridgerators
You can still touch Newgrange in Ireland.
I went there in '99 and you can take a tour by a voice recorder type thing that explains certain parts.
…duh? 
If I was gonna travel to go see some ancient wonders that would of been extremely hard to build back, I’d go to Egypt…
It was built long ago because the people of the Neolithic period would have images of the future, and they saw visions of oneness, people coming together helping each other, and being nice, all sharing the love of oneness. The people were so carried away by these visions that they decided to build a monument to the people, with miles of hills and technical terrain all over the place, they decided to put up some stones for these people to use, but as time went by, they needed a name to use, so they could easily refer to these people, they called them unicyclist!
Yep, that’s why it was made, for trials and Muni, too bad no one has gotten to ride on these monuments built just for us, but our day will come…
i would go see the biggest ball of Twine.
man i love the photo of the fridge henge ill see if i can find it…found it
http://www.uzzah.com/sal04/stone07.jpg
Yeah, I’m not on the phone.
While you’re out hengeing, don’t miss out on Avebury Henge.
It’s pretty close to Stonehenge but on a whole different scale.
And you can still walk right up to the stones.
There’s also woodhenge nearby, which is less impressive but a lot older.
I went to London for my spring break and checked out stonehenge. My friend and I slept on the train and ended up in Axminister where we had to wait for an hour, then caught a train going back to Salisbury where we checked out the Cathedral since the bus didn’t connect right away. I had no idea how close stonehenge was to the road! Anyway, I am going to post my picture in front of it too.
