Stonehenge was in the news yesterday for the Solstice and for a Just Stop Oil spray-painting of the stones.
There are pictures of people hugging the stones. How much hugging will make them get too thin to stand? I expect that's a theoretical question - I think in comparison to Niagara Falls and the water that travels over that cliff, and the erosion that is tangible there.
There supposedly are fewer than 100 henges still surviving in Britain and Ireland. Stone henges are distinct with an outer and inner circle. There are stone circles all over the world. There are over 1,303 in Britain, Ireland and Brittany. Isn't that mysterious? That's a lot of people building things.
One article (HERE) said that Stonehenge likely took 30 million person-hours. That's 3,245 years - if they built it in a year - that's a lot of people. There would have to be a lot of people living there if they were both building something and maintaining food and shelter . No wonder we are in amazement over Stonehenge.
We in Ontario don't think about these kinds of monuments. Wait! There is a Stonehenge conundrum in Norther Ontario. There is a series of 18 huge rocks on the shores of Larder Lake east of Kirkland Lake. They are considered "Stonehenge" rocks - they are erratics - a piece of rock that differs from the size and type of rock native to the area in which it rests. This gives rise to the possibility of ancient indigenous activity. That's Northeastern Ontario. Is there anything here in Niagara? The internet wants me to check out Brock's Monument - maybe colonialism seems ancient now.
And that's our picture on the Queenston Heights horizon. There is a stone stairway up to the top and when we were children, we would climb to the top to look out over Niagara. That's not possible anymore.
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