Jean-Luc learns more about the stones

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Jean-Luc looks at the time on his phone. The man thinks that Jean-Luc might be getting bored with all of this information. 

“No I’m not bored,” says Jean-Luc. “I am a bit concerned if I’ll be able to get back home. What if the time travel door only opens at certain times?”

The man reassures him that there is no time frame when you travel so that means that the door will always be able to open and close. He tells Jean-Luc that he just has a bit more left to tell him. He suggests that they start walking back towards the door.

‘Over the centuries, the stones have developed their own unique personalities and stories: some people see faces in the weathered sarsens, and the birds have favourite nooks to shelter in.

The Heel Stone - This huge unshaped boulder of hard sarsen stone stands in isolation surrounded by a small circular ditch. It weighs more than 36 tonnes! In 1979, the hole for another similar-sized stone was discovered next to it, which may have been the original position of the Heel Stone. Or, there may once have been a pair of upright sarsens immediately outside the entrance to the earthwork enclosure. 

Lintels - There are only six remaining lintels of the outer sarsen circle in place at Stonehenge, but if it was ever completed, there would have been an unbroken ring of stone, 30m in diameter, suspended 4m above the ground. Each lintel is locked to its supporting upright sarsens with a mortice and tenon joint, and to its neighbours by tongue and groove joints – techniques more commonly found in woodworking. Further evidence of the care that went into the construction is that the inner and outer faces of the lintels are gently worked to better give the illusion of a continuous ring of stone. Additionally, the tops of the upright stones have been levelled to overcome the effect of the slope on which they are set, resulting in no more than a few centimetres difference in height across the diameter of the circle.

The Station Stones - Originally four, there are now two remaining Station Stones which were probably put in place at the same time that the central sarsen stones were raised. In this photograph, the small stone in the background is one of them. They mark the corners of a perfect rectangle with its central point in the exact centre of the monument. The reason for this alignment is uncertain, but they mirror the solstice alignment of the stones, and may also mark a lunar alignment.

Stone 52 - Graffiti old and new is present on many of the stones at Stonehenge. Stone 52 bears the name Wren and is thought to have been carved by St Pauls Cathedral architect Sir Christopher Wren, whose family had a home nearby. ’ (Source) 

Let’s continue - More about the stones continued ………..

Start at the beginning – Jean-Luc time travels to the Stonehenge