Stonehenge!

On our trip to Bath, we made a side trip to Stonehenge and a little town called Lacock (which I've written a bit about already). Stonehenge was an amazing sight, right out in the middle of nowhere - if you didn't know where to look (or missed the sign), you might have passed right by it. These two travelers look happy to have found it.... as well as the coffee/hot chocolate stand attached to the gift shop;) We learned some interesting stuff, like, it was built in stages, by different peoples, hundreds of years apart. Around 3050 BC, the circular ditch and bank ('henge') was built. A thousand years later, a circular structure was built from wood....(so instead of those rocks, there were wooden poles/pillars)...
Then from 2500 - 1500 BC, the stone monument was constructed, arranged and rearranged. See the little tip carved in the top of the tallest stone? All the tall stones had these at one time. Then the ones that laid atop had a matching circular hole to fit that tip into. Early tongue-and-groove!
This seemingly unimportant lump of rock in the foreground is actually a 'station stone', used for measurement against the circular structure. The largest, tall stones were brought from an area 19 miles away and the smaller ones came from over 240 miles away!!

Wow, and I thought lugging my groceries home from Tesco was hard work.
The fact that these stones are still standing, some 4000 years later is staggering.

So much so, that I think I need a pint just to wrap my head around it.
Too bad I don't drink beer.