30 june, after journey to london, before going back to leeds, i visited stonehenge. It was about one and half hour from london to Wiltshire (the contry of Stonehenge). There me, my dad, my brother and cousin enter the ancient prehistoric monument for £6 per person. There, we were given a small radio to heard the history of Stonehenge.
archaelogists believe that long ago (3000 B.C.) it was a town surrounded by forest and earth bank. It was erupted 2200 BC. The site we see now only consist of small amount of the stone. People used to steal the stone for their own goods like making roads and houses and even souvenir.
Stonehenge also served as burial ground at earliest beginnings. What still make it a mystery until now is where were the stones from. It consist of 82 bluestones weights about 4 tonnes taken from about 240 miles west of Amesbury. Not to mention other kinds of stones.
There're some legend about this site too. It was said that in this ancient site, King Arthur's sword the 'Excalibur' was first founded.
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