Winter Solstice
- Stonehenge
Pictures 2
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The
Winter Solstice at Stonehenge 2004
Winter Solstice Pictures 1 click on the thumbnail to see a bigger version |
 The Winter solstice dawns behind the clouds |
 Stonehenge - 21st December 2004 |
 Standing stones |
 Stonehenge daybreak |
 Stonehenge Slaughter Stone |
 dew-filled Slaughter stone |
 Standing stones - Stonehenge |
 The Giants' Dance |
 Stonehenge sarsen |
 Stonehenge travellers |
 Stonehenge trilithon |
 View of Heel Stone |
 Stonehenge Prehistoric temple |
 Stonehenge megaliths |
 Stonehenge fallen stones |
 Stonehenge Winter Solstice |
 Amongst the magical Stonehenge megaliths |
 Towering trilithons Stonehenge |
 Winter solstice morning |
 The People's Temple |
 Stonehenge Open Access |
 Winter Solstice celebrations are over for another year |
 Stonehenge druids |
 Stonehenge solstice rituals are over |
 Stonehenge in the morning mist |
 Stonehenge Winter solstice ends |
 Stonehenge landscape |
 Stonehenge fenced in ... until the Summer Solstice! |
Written at Stonehenge
Thou noblest monument of Albion's isle!
Whether by Merlin's aid, from Scythia's shore,
To Amber's fatal plain Pendragon bore,
Huge frame of giant-hands, the mighty pile
T' entomb his Britons slain by Hengist's guile:
Or Druid priests, sprinkled with human gore,
Taught 'mid thy massy maze their mystic lore:
Or Danish chiefs, enrich'd with savage spoil,
To Victory's idol vast, an unhewn shrine,
Rear'd the rude heap: or, in thy hallow'd round,
Repose the kings of Brutus' genuine line;
Or here those kings in solemn state were crown'd:
Studious to trace thy wondrous origine,
We muse on many an ancient tale renown'd.
Thomas Warton the younger, 1777