Kindle Notes & Highlights
Everyone gasped at what they saw! The carriage was parked among giant stones standing in a circle.
It was hard to imagine how people could have built such a thing thousands of years ago. Many people thought it had to be made by giants or by magic.
The almost-flat land seemed to go on forever. The circle of stones appeared to jut out from the emptiness around them.
People have wondered about Stonehenge for more than a thousand years. How old is it? Where did the stones come from? Who built it and why? And how?
But many mysteries still remain. Those mysteries make Stonehenge one of the most fascinating places in the world.
In the south of England, about ninety miles west of London, sits the Salisbury Plain. It is a lonely-looking area. There are few trees. Not much grows except grass. Few creatures live there except sheep. Yet the Salisbury Plain is famous. Well over a million people travel there every year. They come from all over the world to visit one of the great monuments of the ancient world—the stone circle called Stonehenge.
The stones are buried at different depths so that the tops are level with each other. Seventeen of these stones still stand. Many others have fallen and lie about on the ground.
Some pieces of the Stonehenge story have come from the air!
Some visitors believed bluestone could heal.
