Arthurian locations | Stonehenge

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The good news is that filming - or at least rehearals - for Merlin's fourth season began on 14 March. Hurrah! How better to commemorate that than by visiting a 'genuine' Merlinian location?

the place itself

Stonehenge in Wiltshire is perhaps Britain's most recognisable monument; it is managed by English Heritage, and part of a World Heritage Site. The surrounding area contains a variety of other prehistoric monuments, including barrows, avenues, and other earth-and-timber henges (some of which are managed by the National Trust). Stonehenge itself was apparently intended and used as a temple, oriented to the Summer and Winter Solstices - though we are left with as many questions as answers about exactly who created it, and how and why. (And even the types of lichen growing on the stones present their own mysteries!)

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