Stonehenge tickets and tours

According to mock-metal band Spinal Tap, Stonehenge was built by ancient British people - the druids. “Nobody knows who they were, or what they were doin’” goes the song “Stonehenge.” Whoever built it around 3000 years ago left no written records, and historians have never agreed how or why it was built. Some believe it was a giant clock to measure the summer and winter solstices. Others believe it was a healing place.

One of the main mysteries is how the ancient builders moved such huge stones so many miles before the invention of the wheel. Perhaps they rolled them on logs or dragged them on sleds. Geologists suggest that glaciers could have carried them from far away and dropped them near to the site.

Less scientifically, Stonehenge has long been associated with some weird and wonderful theories. Is it a launch pad for alien spacecraft? Is it a clock for setting menstrual cycles? Indeed, the Romans and, later, the Christian Church, believed the druids themselves were magic-obsessed buffoons. All we know is that “nobody knows who they were, or what they were doin’.”