[LucyT]

Ping.

[FLOutdoorsman]

Stonehenge making the news lately

GGG ping

[robertpaulsen]

Artist: Look, look. Look, this is what I was asked to build. Eighteen inches. Right here, it specified eighteen inches. I was given this napkin, I mean...

[Bigh4u2]

Doesn't the ink seem a little 'fresh' and what about the 'lined' paper?

Curious.

[the invisib1e hand]

I trust it's an intriguing graphic.

[savedbygrace]

Looking at it that way, it's obviously a sports stadium of some sort.

You can even see the mounts for the lights.

[Ilky Hucktar]

"great trilithons" 'Nuff said. By the way, what the hell is everyone talking about. ("Where'd they all go?!?!? HAHAHAHA!!)

[Normal4me]

Looks like some of the blueprints I am expected to work from....

[FormerLib]

Has Dan Rather weighed in on this yet?

[tubebender]

We visited the American version of Stonehenge on the banks of the Columbia River on the Washington side a few years ago.

I am a little cautious of this latest find...

[KillTime]

No one else noticed this book all this time? I mean, was the book recently discovered and thus the picture, too, or was the book in some library for a long time and no one opened it until now to notice the picture?

[Tribune7]

It looks like something scrawled on a napkin.

[JOAT]

ping

[Silly]

Very cool.

[Verginius Rufus]

Note "the oldest detailed drawing..."

The book Stonehenge Complete by Christopher Chippindale (3rd ed., 2004) shows two drawings of Stonehenge from 14th-century manuscripts (the one in The Guardian story is 15th century). They both illustrate Geoffrey of Monmouth's account of how Merlin had Stonehenge constructed but one is just a partial picture (four upright stones visible) and one is stylized with all the lintels still in place.

I don't think we should assume that the 15th-century drawing is an accurate view of what Stonehenge looked like then--probably the artist is drawing it from memory.

The name in the circle to the right of the word Stonehenge is Aurelius Ambrosius--he was supposedly the king of the Britons at the time Stonehenge was set up.

[windsorknot]

It was just across the road from the McDonald's.

[ShadowDancer]

I don't know the topography of the area. Are there hills directly by it that would allow a bird's eye view of it?

[SunkenCiv]

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[Lee'sGhost]

Hey, I have the check from the Last Supper.

[Liberty Valance]

We've got Stonehenge II here in Central Texas...we call it "the henge". It's about 20 miles from my house.