Stonehenge / Woodhenge

I decided to pay a visit to the internationally famous Stonehenge in Wiltshire today and get a virtual cache there while I was at it. Now loads of people have heard of Stonehenge, but how much do you know about Woodhenge? If you're like me, the answer will be "very little"! There was a virtual cache there too though so I decided to learn about that site as well. Obviously the wood has had years to rot away (4000 approximately - some of it even pre-dates Stonehenge) but the site has been rebuilt with concrete posts instead. It's not quite as jaw-dropping as Stonehenge, but it's still worth a visit.

The cache listing for Woodhenge tells us a little about the history of this place: "Unlike Stonehenge, there was no central [altar] stone although this particular circle had a much more macabre centrepiece. One and a half metres from the actual centre, the skeleton of a child of about three years of age was exhumed from the chalk, its skull cleaved open in what was almost [certainly] a predetermined act. This, according to experts, is one of the very few pieces of evidence of human sacrifice in prehistoric Britain."

To make the visit more atmospheric, I saw both Stonehenge and Woodhenge in quite thick fog.