"Grandiose, world-reknowned and utterly unique, Stonehenge has held on to most of its secrets despite the efforts of archaeologists... It is impossible to put into context by looking at other stone circles because it is one of a kind - there really is nothing else remotely like it. We can find bigger stone circles at Castlerigg, Avebury, Newgrange and Stanton Drew. We can find structures within circles at Avebury, but nowhere else is the singular lintel structure of Stonehenge to be found. Nor is there any other example of the tongue and groove interlocking construction which has enable this drystone building to stand against the passage of Time for almost four thousand years.
Indeed, some of the attraction of Stonehenge is perhaps this feeling that this building from so long ago, both temporally and culturally, connects us with our past. It reaches to us across the ages - two hundred generations of people, from our prehistoric ancestors who left no writing that we can discern, to us with all the trappings of our post-industrial world..."

read more here ~~
http://www.megalithia.com/stonehenge/index.html

info on the astronomy and alignments of Stonehenge ~~
http://www.megalithia.com/stonehenge/astronomy.html

-------aside to Jonus....wonderful pics and thanks....perhaps one day I'll be able to visit! :)