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On the summer solstice, the sun rises behind the Heel Stone in the north-east part of the horizon and its first rays shine into the heart of Stonehenge. On the winter solstice, the sun sets to the south-west of the stone circle.
- Summer Solstice 2024
Summer Solstice 2024. Stonehenge was built to align with the...
- What is the Summer Solstice?
Stonehenge is famous for its alignment on sunrise on the...
- Summer Solstice 2024
Summer Solstice 2024. Stonehenge was built to align with the sun on the solstices. This year summer solstice will be celebrated from 7pm on Thursday 20th June to 8am on Friday 21st June. English Heritage is pleased to provide free Managed Open Access to Stonehenge summer solstice.
Jun 15, 2022 · Stonehenge was carefully designed to align with the movements of the sun. The enormous sarsen stones and smaller bluestones, set up in the centre of the site in about 2500 BC, were precisely arranged to frame two particular events in the year: the sunrise at summer solstice, and the sunset at winter solstice.
Stonehenge is famous for its alignment on sunrise on the longest day of the year and each year thousands of people come to the site at midsummer. But what is the solstice and what did it mean for prehistoric people?
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Beginning in 3000 BC, the basis of the monument was a spiritual burial site for a civilization which lived two miles away, according to Timothy Darvill, the director of the Centre for Archaeology and Anthropology at Bournemouth University. These Neolithic people lived within the Durrington Walls, a nearby settlement. But it wasn’t until around 2600...
Experts are almost certain that the builders strategically placed the rocks to showcase the solstices twice a year. But with no writing from the era, there’s a lot left to the imagination. “We know that the stone’s circles do respect the line of the midsummer sunrise and the midwinter sunset. But I don’t think that was the only reason that it was b...
“Whether those folks ever did anything at Stonehenge, I’m afraid we just don’t know,” Darvill says. Here’s what we do know. In the 1700s, William Stukeley popularized the theory that it was a temple for and built by the Druids, practitioners of a Celtic spiritual tradition considered to be similar to modern Pagans. According to Stukeley’s book, Sto...
Though it’s not possible that the Druids built Stonehenge, the connection hasn’t been lost. “Modern-day Pagan and Druid groups believe it is their temple and it is their right to worship there, so [coming to Stonehenge is] the equivalent for them of coming to a church or cathedral,” Sebire says. Still, Stukeley was the first to solidly theorize Sto...
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Jun 21, 2023 · Summer is officially here. Around 8,000 people gathered around the prehistoric stones at Stonehenge to greet the sun for the summer solstice, which is the longest day in the Northern...
Jun 21, 2023 · About 10,000 people have gathered to welcome the summer solstice at Stonehenge. Druids and pagans joined a colourful mix of visitors to mark the longest day of the year at the ancient site...
