The Mystery of Stonehenge: A Famous Landmark of Britain

Of all the great monuments of the past Stonehenge is one of the most enduring and enigmatic a mystery which appears to present more puzzles the more we attempt to discover its secrets it stands on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire in the southern part of modern-day England where it has endured the trials of 5000 years.

I mean one of the probably the most exciting things about Stonehenge is that why it was built for what purpose and exactly how to even to this day with all the technology and the advancement of Technology we really don't know it is a mystery there has been a hinge on the site for some 5000 years. The present stone structure took shape some 3,000 years ago around 1000 BC but the first stages of stonehenge were created around 2800 BC just after the end of the Mesolithic Age which makes Stonehenge older than the Great Pyramid at Giza, and like the pyramids, Stonehenge resolutely defies explanation in the distant times when it was built farming techniques were primitive. Crops on certain wild wolves roamed the woodlands and the scattered bands of hunters lived a precarious existence.

Stonehenge in its prime must have been an awesome site the single largest structure which any of its visitors would witness in their whole lives. One of the problems that we've had in understanding Stonehenge has been the fact that although a very large part of it has been excavated those excavations were not written up for a variety of reasons, so a great deal of the information that has come out about Stonehenge, has been bit based really on very little archaeological fact.

That gives us some facts on which we can base various ideas and various thoughts but it will only take us so far, because we can only look at the physical remains and as archaeologists and scientists we try to work out what has happened from those physical remains. It's for anybody and everybody to decide what those remains actually represent in terms of how people felt, what they were doing there, how they thought about things. We can't get that information from the archaeology, despite the very best efforts of some of the best brains the world of archaeology. It stubbornly declines to fit any of the theories advanced and remains as unexplained today, as it did when it first entered the realms of folklore. In one of the earliest written records of Stonehenge recorded in the 12th century, Henry of Huntington named it, even then as one of the wonders of Britain. This contemporary print depicts the legend that the stones had been magically transported to Salisbury Plain by the great magician Merlin.

Stone circles as an enduring feature of the British landscape have always attracted myths and legends and there are great many different theories about what they were there for, who built them even and of course the myth that Merlin built Stonehenge by transporting huge rocks across from Ireland, so they are magical places and they're very mysterious, and some of them quite wonderful. The powers of magic are no longer the favoured explanation, but Stonehenge is a mystery that may never be solved. Older than the Great Pyramid of Giza Stonehenge marks time as an object of wonder normos natural beauty. 150 generations of people have regarded it with awe and admiration, it marks the beginning of a natural heritage. The wonder of Stonehenge is always drawn the crowds but it is now a victim of his own immense popularity. Today the Stonehenge site is encroached by modern roads and fenced off from the general public.

English heritage wants eventually to return Stonehenge to its dignity and isolation and it would be wonderful if one day. Stonehenge was here without the roads and that you could walk to the stones you could follow the processional Avenue and perhaps then people will formulate even more of their own opinions.