# Stonehenge - Where did the missing stones go? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 7, 2014, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stonehenge-where-did-the-missing-stones-go/685519 "2014-04-07T01:36:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2014, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stonehenge-where-did-the-missing-stones-go/685519/41 "2014-09-24T18:11:36Z")
“Getting another stone” sounds simple, until you realize they’d have to get it from Wales. ---
**Author:** ![eburacum45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eburacum45/32/8690_2.png) [@eburacum45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eburacum45)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2014, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stonehenge-where-did-the-missing-stones-go/685519/42 "2014-09-24T20:43:19Z")
Actually the sarsens came from the Marlborough Downs, ‘only’ 48 kilometers away. Still not an easy task. ---
**Author:** ![Stealth\_Bragg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4bbf92/32.png) [@Stealth\_Bragg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stealth_Bragg)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2014, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stonehenge-where-did-the-missing-stones-go/685519/43 "2014-09-25T10:51:35Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Yep. Been there and had lunch in the pub. This was about 20 years ago, but the thing I like about it was that you could wonder about and even touch the stones if you wanted. Stonehenge is pretty much off limits these days. The large stone circle at [Stanton Drew](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanton_Drew_stone_circles) in Somerset is open to the public, you can walk among the stones and touch them etc. One large circle, a smaller circle nearby and a large stone in the nearby Druids Arms pub. ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2014, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stonehenge-where-did-the-missing-stones-go/685519/44 "2014-09-25T19:52:19Z")
Does anyone know of a site that has any ‘sight picture’ type illustrations of what various astronomical alignments Stonehenge is supposed to correspond to would have looked like? For instance, what would the summer solstice sunrise would have looked like viewed through Stonehenge? Are there sight lines at Stonehenge for the equinox? What would it have looked like? When I google for stuff like this, all I get is pictures of a bunch of hippies milling about in the circle. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2014, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stonehenge-where-did-the-missing-stones-go/685519/45 "2014-09-25T20:30:03Z")
> [@Ken001](#): > > Stonehenge was restored (rebuilt) in progressive steps from 1901 to 1964. Many of the original stones are lost but the holes have been discovered and the whole henge was a substantial size with an avenue leading up to what we have today. > > Actually as best I can recall from a book on the subject, rebuilding started circa 1850 but my google-fu is low. “Rebuilding?” Are the restorers actually going out and finding the original stones, confiscating them in the name of national historical sovereignty and returning them to their original positions? Or are they calculating the dimensions of missing stones, quarrying new stones, and putting them in place, to the point where we may one day be visiting a _Henge of [Theseus](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus)_? Or is it something else? ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2014, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stonehenge-where-did-the-missing-stones-go/685519/46 "2014-09-25T20:35:46Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > It was the only place they could get material for Black Sabbath’s full-sized Stonehenge replica. [Black Sabbath did that too?](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinal_Tap_%28band%29) Whoa. ---
**Author:** ![eburacum45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eburacum45/32/8690_2.png) [@eburacum45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eburacum45)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2014, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stonehenge-where-did-the-missing-stones-go/685519/47 "2014-09-26T00:23:17Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > “Rebuilding?” Are the restorers actually going out and finding the original stones, confiscating them in the name of national historical sovereignty and returning them to their original positions? > > Or are they calculating the dimensions of missing stones, quarrying new stones, and putting them in place… The restoration mostly consisted of re-erecting the stones that were laying around on site where they had fallen. This often included setting the re-erected stones in concrete, a process which almost certainly detroyed some context. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stonehenge-where-did-the-missing-stones-go/685519.md?page=2)