“Some archeologists believe that Stonehenge is actually a crude effort by the Druids to build a computing device.”

~Dave Barry

Once a market site for fruit and vegetables as well as poultry, the Poultry Cross was built in the late 15th century on the site of an earlier structure first mentioned in 1307. There were three other crosses in medieval Salisbury, for livestock, cheese and milk, and wool and yarn.

Pretty stream in Salisbury, with a statue of a little fisher boy!




Hark! Alas I spy a Henge of Stones!

On Saturday, to celebrate my twentieth year of inhabiting this planet, Kathryn, Aleah, Julia, and myself took a little trip to Salisbury in Wiltshire County to look at some really old rocks. Some really old big rocks. Some really old big mysterious rocks that are commonly referred to as (drum roll please) STONEHENGE. There on many theories about Stonehenge, which has become one of England's greatest national icons, most of which are WRONG. For instance, these rocks could not have been dragged to the site and propped up by the Druids, unless of course Doc Brown made them a DeLorean too, and they went back thousands of years before they inhabited England to stand up some super huge rocks. Its original purpose is unclear, some have speculated that it was a temple made for the worship of ancient earth deities or perhaps an astronomical observatory for marking significant events on the prehistoric calendar. Others claim that it was a sacred site for the burial of high-ranking citizens from the societies of long ago.

Aleah, Julia, Kathryn and I in front of Stonehenge.



SHEEP!

While we can't say with any degree of certainty what it was for, we can say that it wasn't constructed for any casual purpose, because those rocks were heavy suckers, and I don't think anyone just did that for fun. Only something very important to the ancients would have been worth the effort and investment that it took to construct Stonehenge. And now it is surrounded by sheep, so it is even more awesome than ever before!