# Good ol' Stonehenge, is there any other like it? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 5, 2006, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-ol-stonehenge-is-there-any-other-like-it/379188 "2006-11-05T16:19:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-ol-stonehenge-is-there-any-other-like-it/379188/41 "2006-11-07T17:24:11Z")
[QUOTE=chowder] Well y’know that never occurred to me, can’t think why. Oh wait! perhaps it was 'cos I was in awe of the place. [/QUOTE] You never get the same answer twice. If you count them clockwise, you get one answer, and anticlockwise, another. ---
**Author:** ![Rayne\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@Rayne\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rayne_Man)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-ol-stonehenge-is-there-any-other-like-it/379188/42 "2006-11-07T17:37:43Z")
[QUOTE=Yellow\_Rights] Why is it so important to line up with the summer/winter solstice? Seems like a lot of effort when they could just draw a line in the ground. [/QUOTE] As I said above , the winter solstice would have been more important then the summer one. It’s a point in the year showing that the days will soon get longer and warmer, and it will soon be time to plant your crops. Without this solstice “marker” you would have no idea in what phase of the sun cycle you are. Don’t forget they probably didn’t have any calenders. The summer and winter solstices are fixed, dependable points in the year. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-ol-stonehenge-is-there-any-other-like-it/379188/43 "2006-11-07T19:00:44Z")
[QUOTE=Struan] \*I’d recommend Orkney anyway, it’s a stunning place - and oddly the most astonishing thing on the Islands is about 60 years old… [/QUOTE] And what would that be? ---
**Author:** ![Rayne\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@Rayne\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rayne_Man)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-ol-stonehenge-is-there-any-other-like-it/379188/44 "2006-11-07T19:02:57Z")
[QUOTE=Colophon] And what would that be? [/QUOTE] If you look above , I think he was referring to the Italian chapel. ---
**Author:** ![Meurglys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Meurglys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meurglys)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-ol-stonehenge-is-there-any-other-like-it/379188/45 "2006-11-07T21:49:49Z")
I thought maybe **Struan** lived there and was referring to himself! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2006, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-ol-stonehenge-is-there-any-other-like-it/379188/46 "2006-11-08T00:41:38Z")
And there’s the Tarxien Temple in Malta [http://www.maltavista.net/en/list/photo/778.html](http://www.maltavista.net/en/list/photo/778.html) ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2006, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-ol-stonehenge-is-there-any-other-like-it/379188/47 "2006-11-08T00:45:39Z")
[QUOTE=Meurglys] I thought maybe **Struan** lived there and was referring to himself! 😉 [/QUOTE] Creaks, shakes fists at younger members! \get off my World Heritage Site [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-ol-stonehenge-is-there-any-other-like-it/379188.md?page=2)