Alas.. sampai ke stonehenge, read about it few months back in Nat Geographic mag. Nothing much to describe it but the rocks were huge. I guess sama mcm Pyramid kot the construction but for sure Pyramid is much more interesting and astounding from this one. It was windy ... so tudung tak leh maintain masa amik gambar, huhu penting tu tudung maintain. Anyway, it was a good journey... worth travelling dlm angin bayu yg kuat dan kesejukan yg sampai ke tulang... Old Sarum pon sgt2 cantik but to arrive there kena do some hiking... perhaps that is the reason why ramai org tak sampai sini. Children sgt suka dtg sini coz they can be viking & the story teller pon pandai buat budak2 tu gelak. I wish I could spend more time here... but am running out of time... & finally, old town salisbury... classic english town by the time we were about to left it, the town dah kosong... sunyi sepi...
The first Stonehenge was a large earthwork or Henge, comprising a ditch, bank, and the Aubrey holes, all probably built around 3100 BC. The Aubrey holes are round pits in the chalk, about one metre wide and deep, with steep sides and flat bottoms. They form a circle about 284 feet in diameter
The great earthwork of Old Sarum stands near Salisbury on the edge of Wiltshire's chalk plains. Its mighty ramparts were raised in about 500 BC by Iron Age peoples, and later occupied by the Romans, the Saxons and, most importantly, the Normans. William the Conqueror paid off his army here in 1070, and in 1086 summoned all the great landowners of England here to swear an oath of loyalty. A Norman castle was built on the inner mound, and joined soon afterwards by a royal palace. By the middle of the 12th century a new town occupied much of the great earthwork, complete with a noble new Norman cathedral, the mother church of a huge diocese.