Re: Maybe spring

AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:

On 4/25/2025 9:35 PM, AMuzi wrote:

On 4/25/2025 8:21 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:

On 4/25/2025 1:49 PM, AMuzi wrote:

On 4/25/2025 12:16 PM, zen cycle wrote:

 
I'm confused by this message. What do you mean by
"military give the firing time"? How is the military
involved with Stonehenge?

 
I did not know this either but since I visited, the Crown
sold it to English Heritage and yes Ministry of Defence
has a security role now.
 
https://backpackingguys.com/who-currently-owns-stonehenge/
 
Regulation has upped the game since my disappointment at
seeing chain link fences and posted hours in 1973:
 
https://britishheritage.com/guarding-the-stones/

 
Are you sure that was 1973? We bike toured through there
in 1976 (our first overseas tour) and had absolutely no
trouble walking around inside the stone circle.
 
I guess we joined a small group that had a tour guide,
although I don't remember doing that. I definitely
remember a guide pointing out a barely visible carving of
a dagger in one of the stones. When one visitor touched
it, she said "And _that's_ why it's barely visible."
 
The group must have moved on, because I remember us being
alone standing in the absolute center of the circle.
 
And I know it was 1976, because while America was
celebrating the bicentennial, we had gone to England and
Scotland. British Airways had ads saying something like
"All is forgiven. Come back home!"
 

 
Yes, circling a large boundary around the site. I was
carrying a sleeping bag and brought along a girl but the
place closes overnight. sigh.
 

 
photo:
https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-a-couple-visiting-stonehenge-peer-through-the-fence-after-the-celebrations-21370952.html
 

I think that’s been long removed! The triangle area/field it’s in does have
fences, though they are quite low farm type of things.

 Looking at google maps this was the fence on the side road which doesn’t
exist any more either the road it’s a path now or such a large fence though
that is the tourists side as you where!

Roger Merriman