Sun worship at Stonehenge

People think that more than 3,500 years ago the huge stones of Stonehenge were transported 200 miles from Wales and set up in a circle on Salisbury Plain, a region south-east of Bristol. Some people think that the stones were brought to the area by a glacier.

Stonehenge is associated with sun worship: at dawn in midsummer, the sun rises exactly over a certain stone on the outside of the circle and shines onto the altar in the centre. Every year thousands of young people go to Stonehenge to take part in the midsummer Druid festival, but only a small number of people are allowed near the circle of stones. This has often led to violence with the police.

Michael Vaughan-Rees, Geraldine Sweeney, Picot Cassidy: In Britain; Cornelsen Verlag, 2000, page 80