Stonehenge offers many mysteries

This Canadian brainstorm actually makes sense. The town proposing the Stonehenge replica is in a compatible global location. The folks at The Vancouver Sun tell us more.

“The town of Barriere is hatching a plan to place a concrete replica of England’s Stonehenge at the centre of a major park development.

Barriere’s version would be a scaled-down model of the real 100-metre-wide Druidic temple that has stood on the Salisbury Plains for about 4,500 years. The circle of stone megaliths and lintels is aligned to record the passing of the seasons and stands at the centre of a huge complex of burial mounds.

Coun. Virginia Smith brought the idea to council about a month ago after she learned that the real Stonehenge is located at the exact same latitude – 51 degrees north – as the town’s new park, which is already slated for a makeover with a new field house, bandshell, playground and a system of trails…

“I received a letter from a man who lives in Comox who advised us that this is the United Nations Year of Astronomy and that we were on the same latitude as Stonehenge,” said Smith. “So we surveyed and found that the line ran right through our park.”

Barriere’s version is expected to align with the sun and the moon at celestial events such as summer and winter solstice.

A playground and waterpark originally planned for the exact location of 51-degree line has already been moved within the development in anticipation of the approval by council to proceed with Mini-henge.

 

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