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Stonehenge: Gateway To The Infinite
Author: Jonathan Jones Source: The Guardian (UK)
Title: GATEWAY TO THE INFINITE
There is a hollow in the fields to the north of Stonehenge where time stops. As sheep trot away from the intruder, their baas are barely interrupted by the distant rumble of traffic. On the crest of the slope that rises before you, the stones are black against the bright sky.
Stonehenge: gateway to the infinite.
It is no accident that such a perfect view of Stonehenge rewards the walker at this spot. Where you're standing is in fact a turning point on an ancient route, formally marked out by earth banks, that seems to have been the sacred approach to the standing stone circle on Salisbury Plain.
At this point at the bottom of the prominence known as King Barrow Ridge, pilgrims in the Neolithic age would have turned to face Stonehenge and their hearts might have filled with awe at the final approach towards the most ambitious architectural structure in the northern Europe of their day.
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