Where is Stonehenge and what is it like??

• Explore Stonehenge using online maps:– Apple Maps.– Google Earth App.

• Use the different layers. For example, photos, satellite.

• Add information to your grid.

• Extension – visit Bing Maps and use the Ordnance Survey Layer to add even more information.

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Stonehenge

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Where is Stonehenge and what is it like?

Using Apple Maps or Google Earth. Describe the location of Stonehenge:

Stonehenge is….

Use the different forms of map available to you. Record information about Stonehenge in the table below. Only use the map apps.

Ordnance Survey Map Apple Maps Google Earth

Starter here:

I think that the best source of information about Stonehenge is……

Because…..

‘ If Stonehenge be then, as it is, a universal curiosity, for us Englishmen it is one of the three things in our island – the other two are Land’s End and Hadrian’s Wall – which each of us must see once in his life; it is a place of pilgrimage very sympathetic to this age, for Stonehenge is the shrine of an unknown God.

...it stands wholly within the shadow, over the horizon not only of history, but of legend, an aloof and inexplicable thing rising from the plain between the sky and the grass...’

The Highways and Byways of Britain. David Milner.

‘Things had changed at Stonehenge since I was last there in the early seventies. They’ve built a smart new gift shop and coffee bar, though there is still no interpretation centre, which is entirely understandable. This is, after all, merely the most important prehistoric monument in Europe and one of the dozen most visited tourist attractions in England, ....’

Notes from a Small Island. Bill Bryson

These are taken from two travel guides. Which one is the older extract? Why?

1897 - 1948

1993

‘One of the most important prehistoric sites, the ancient ring of monolithic stones at Stonehenge has been attracting pilgrims, poets and philosophers for the last 5000 years. Despite the constant flow of traffic, and the huge numbers of visitors, Stonehenge still manages to be a mystical, ethereal place - a haunting echo from Britain's forgotten past.

A reminder of a lost civilisation who once walked the many ceremonial avenues across Salisbury Plain, Stonehenge is also still one of Britain's great archaeological mysteries: although there are countless theories about what the site was used for, ranging from a sacrificial centre to a celestial timepiece, in truth no one really knows what drove prehistoric Britons to expend so much time and effort on its construction.,

Lonely Planet, 2008. http://www.lonelyplanet.com/worldguide/england/sights/5185?list=true

What about this one?

What can images tell us?

Watch the images. Record positives and negatives about Stonehenge. Are there any different points of view represented? For example, tourists, local residents?

Viewpoints: Write which groups of people are represented:

Positive viewpoints Negative viewpoints

As geographers, it is important to use many different sources of information about a place because…..

Next: Underline the problemsArguably one of the world’s most important prehistoric sites, and certainly one of Britain’s biggest tourist attractions, the ancient ring of monolithic stones at Stonehenge (EH/NT; 01980-624715; admission £5.90; 9am-7pm Jul-Aug, 9.30am-6pm mid-Mar–May & Sep–mid-Oct, 9.30am-4pm Oct-Mar) has been attracting a steady stream of pilgrims, poets and philosophers for the last 5000 years. Despite the constant flow of traffic from the main road beside the monument, and the huge numbers of visitors who traipse around the stones on a daily basis, Stonehenge still manages to be a mystical, ethereal place – a haunting echo from Britain’s forgotten past, and a reminder of a lost civilisation who once walked the many ceremonial avenues across Salisbury Plain. Even more intriguingly, it’s still one of Britain’s great archaeological mysteries: although there are countless theories about what the site was used for, ranging from a sacrificial centre to a celestial timepiece, in truth no-one really knows what drove prehistoric Britons to expend so much time and effort on its construction.

Lonely Planet, 2012http://www.lonelyplanet.com/england/southwest-england/stonehenge