# Did anyone find Stonehenge on Google Earth? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 26, 2006, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-find-stonehenge-on-google-earth/341696 "2006-01-26T14:40:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-find-stonehenge-on-google-earth/341696/1 "2006-01-26T14:40:19Z")
I’ve been looking countless times on Google Earth for Stonehenge in Amesbury, Witshire. I see some formations west of town but I’ve not found the circular formation itself! Please help before I spend the money on the High Rez version of G.E. I’ve even tried using the latitude and longitude coordinates but ---
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-find-stonehenge-on-google-earth/341696/2 "2006-01-26T14:41:21Z")
\*\*Damn Gerbils ate the rest of my post! Continued: —\> I can’t seem to locate the actual henge. ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Badger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/848f3c/32.png) [@Dead\_Badger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Badger)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-find-stonehenge-on-google-earth/341696/3 "2006-01-26T15:00:24Z")
Weird; it’s not there on Google Maps, either (I don’t have GE installed but I believe it’s identical satellite data). It should be in the road cleft that I’ve centred in [this](http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=stonehenge&btnG=Search&ll=51.177137,-1.825018&spn=0.038796,0.100851&t=h) view, but simply isn’t there. They don’t have particularly high-resolution images of that area, but I’d be surprised if it wasn’t visible at all. How very odd. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-find-stonehenge-on-google-earth/341696/4 "2006-01-26T15:01:37Z")
I don’t think it’s visible; it’s smack in the middle of this page: https://maps.google.com/maps?t=k&hl=en&ll=51.181011,-1.838837&spn=0.026149,0.05785&t=k -and you can’t make it out. See the road that enters the frame horizontally from the right side? - follow the upper of its two forks; you pass a little dark rectangular blob, then the road bends slightly; that lighter-coloured blob underneath the bend is the Stonehenge monument. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-find-stonehenge-on-google-earth/341696/5 "2006-01-26T15:02:48Z")
Bear in mind that not all of the aerial photos are up to date. They could be using a shot from before Stonehenge was built. ---
**Author:** ![Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-find-stonehenge-on-google-earth/341696/6 "2006-01-26T15:10:20Z")
I went looking for Avebury but couldn’t find it. Any UK dopers have directions? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Badger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/848f3c/32.png) [@Dead\_Badger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Badger)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-find-stonehenge-on-google-earth/341696/7 "2006-01-26T15:13:44Z")
Actually, in retrospect that image doesn’t even show houses distinguishable from one another, and they’re substantially larger than individual stonehenge features. I think it actually is just that the structure is just too indistinct to be seen at that resolution. There are a couple of things that look like they could be the circular patch around the actual stones ([picture](http://www.sacredsites.com/europe/england/stonehenge.html)), but it’s kinda hard to distinguish them from compression artifacts. ---
**Author:** ![Mycroft\_Holmes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a5b964/32.png) [@Mycroft\_Holmes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mycroft_Holmes)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-find-stonehenge-on-google-earth/341696/8 "2006-01-26T15:13:49Z")
> [@pravnik](#): > > Bear in mind that not all of the aerial photos are up to date. They could be using a shot from before Stonehenge was built. \ 😃 ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-find-stonehenge-on-google-earth/341696/9 "2006-01-26T15:14:32Z")
If you go to where it should be, and then turn on “Google Community”, you’ll find a placemarker called “Stonehenge Aerial Overlay”. Click the associated “i” button, and then when the browser loads, click the placemark in the post by user “KitL”. This overlays a hi-res shot of the area where the monument is quite visible. ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-find-stonehenge-on-google-earth/341696/10 "2006-01-26T15:15:07Z")
I found pretty much the same thing. I could make out the exit off the main road where it was supposed to be, and what I deduced to be the parking lot, but didn’t really see anything. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-find-stonehenge-on-google-earth/341696/11 "2006-01-26T15:38:05Z")
Yes; the car park is quite distinctly visible as a collection of tesselated angular objects on the other side of the road. I do believe the indistinct feature mentioned by _Dead Badger_ may be the monument or its surroundings; it is right next to the road. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-find-stonehenge-on-google-earth/341696/12 "2006-01-26T16:01:33Z")
[This web page has several low-altitude aerial photos.](http://www.megalithic.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=My_eGallery&file=index&do=showgall&gid=287&orderby=dateD) You can see how (relatively) small the site is (compared to the car park on the far/North side of the road), how close the site is to the junction of A303 and A344, and how the surrounding grass blends in with the rest of the grass in the site’s triangle when the sun is not low in the East or West throwing shadows. ---
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-find-stonehenge-on-google-earth/341696/13 "2006-01-26T16:10:55Z")
Would the pay version be any better? Anyone have the high rez version? ---
**Author:** ![Bytegeist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@Bytegeist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bytegeist)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-find-stonehenge-on-google-earth/341696/14 "2006-01-26T16:19:20Z")
I think you all are making much [too big a thing](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088258/quotes) out of this. ---
**Author:** ![yoyodyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a9a28c/32.png) [@yoyodyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yoyodyne)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-find-stonehenge-on-google-earth/341696/15 "2006-01-26T16:29:44Z")
> [@Phlosphr](#): > > Would the pay version be any better? Anyone have the high rez version? The pay versions use the same imagery that the free version does. ---
**Author:** ![slaphead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@slaphead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slaphead)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-find-stonehenge-on-google-earth/341696/16 "2006-01-26T16:36:12Z")
Well, bear in mind that the structure is pretty tiny by modern standards. It’s basically a bunch of grey rocks stood on end, which may have been an awesome achievement back in the day, but nowadays it’s nothing. It’s also not exactly a high-contrast colour scheme. Have a look for the modern US version made with cars (carhenge?) which is probably not that different in size and you’d probably struggle to find that too… ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-find-stonehenge-on-google-earth/341696/17 "2006-01-26T16:38:52Z")
> [@Phlosphr](#): > > Would the pay version be any better? Anyone have the high rez version? The pay version gives you: > [@](#): > > Google Earth Plus features the following enhancements: > > ``` > * Faster performance - enhanced network access > * GPS data import - read tracks and waypoints from select GPS devices > o Note 1: Verified support for Magellan and Garmin devices only > o Note 2: Does not support export of tracks or waypoints to a GPS > * Higher resolution printing - greater than screen resolution > * Customer support via email - not just website > * Annotation - draw outlines and shapes > * Import - read address points from .CSV files > > ``` Nothing about better higher resolution photos being available. If you want to see the difference between the different resolutions that are available, drive North from Stonhenge to Oxford at lat=51.7339908068, lon=-1.19555718235 if you zoom in, half the map is blur-o-vision and the other half is good enough to easily see individual cars. ---
**Author:** ![Dorjan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorjan/32/12440_2.png) [@Dorjan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dorjan)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-find-stonehenge-on-google-earth/341696/18 "2006-01-26T16:45:21Z")
Here’s [carhenge](http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=2141+County+Road+59++Alliance,+NE+69301-5802&btnG=Search&t=k&ll=42.138523,-102.858381&spn=0.036278,0.061541&t=k)! Also in a low-res spot, too bad. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-find-stonehenge-on-google-earth/341696/19 "2006-01-26T17:14:23Z")
[Here](http://maps.google.com/?t=h&ll=45.69443,-120.806093&spn=0.001311,0.002403&t=h) you go. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Controvert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@The\_Controvert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Controvert)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-find-stonehenge-on-google-earth/341696/20 "2006-01-26T17:38:11Z")
I’ve been to car henge… nothing in the aerial link looked familiar. The closest thing might be that squiggle to the south-east of the marker. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-find-stonehenge-on-google-earth/341696.md?page=2)