Stonehenge, Wiltshire

Stonehenge 2.0 - private chauffeur tour

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Travel from London by private car to the mysterious World Heritage Site of Stonehenge

Stonehenge 2.0 - private chauffeur tour

Travel from London by private car to the mysterious World Heritage Site of Stonehenge, home to the world’s oldest and most famous prehistoric monument. Enjoy a personal guided visit of Stonehenge and its world-class exhibition and visitor centre, showcasing fascinating archaeology and artefacts.

* Escape the crowds in your comfortable Mercedes Benz, and prepare to enjoy a private tour at your own pace
* Let your guide unravel some of the secrets of Stonehenge, as you marvel at this feat of prehistoric engineering
* Explore the world-class Stonehenge Visitor Centre, with its comprehensive exhibition and museum

Itinerary

Stonehenge visitor centre

Stonehenge visitor centre

The Stonehenge Visitor Centre features exhibits, Neolithic artifacts, interactive displays, a café, a gift shop, and reconstructed houses showcasing ancient life

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Stonehenge Exhibition

Stonehenge Exhibition

The Stonehenge Exhibition Hall offers an immersive journey into the history, construction, and significance of Stonehenge.

We’ll begin with a short audio-visual presentation, followed by time to explore the exhibits. After that, we’ll head outside to the Neolithic houses to learn about cooking in the past. Finally, we’ll take the shuttle bus to the stone circle itself

Stay for 5 minutes

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Exhibit 101 - Building Stonehenge

Exhibit 101 - Building Stonehenge

This case contains objects that have been excavated at Stonehenge. At the top are some deer antlers that were used as picks to dig the large circular ditch that surrounds Stonehenge

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Exhibit 102 - Durrington Walls

Exhibit 102 - Durrington Walls

Much of what we know about the people who built Stonehenge comes from the site of Durrington Walls, about three kilometres or two miles away

Stay for 5 minutes

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Exhibit 103 - Long Barrow Burial

Exhibit 103 - Long Barrow Burial

You’re looking at the skeleton of a man who was buried not far from here, about a thousand years before the stones were raised at Stonehenge

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Exhibit 104 - Early Bronze Age Burial

Exhibit 104 - Early Bronze Age Burial

Building work at Stonehenge had ended by about 2200 BC, in the early Bronze Age. From this date on, for about 500 or 600 years, people buried their dead under mounds in the surrounding landscape

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Exhibit 105 - Timeline & Models

Exhibit 105 - Timeline & Models

Stonehenge wasn’t constructed all at once. People built, altered and rearranged the monument over a thousand years

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Map for Exhibit 105 - Timeline & Models
Neolithic houses

Neolithic houses

The Neolithic Houses at Stonehenge offer a glimpse into the lives of those who built the monument, letting visitors step inside and experience everyday life from that era

Stay for 10 minutes

Map for Neolithic houses

Shuttle bus to the henge

Leaves from outside the gift shop

Stonehenge 1 - Start of audio tour

Stonehenge 1 - Start of audio tour

Welcome to Stonehenge, a unique prehistoric temple aligned with the sun. Built between 3000 and 2200 BC, it’s the only stone circle with lintels atop its uprights

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Stonehenge 2 - Earthwork Enclosure

Stonehenge 2 - Earthwork Enclosure

Together, this bank and ditch form an early type of henge. This is a term, from the name of Stonehenge, used by archaeologists to describe a circular earthwork monument, surrounded by a bank and ditch

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Stonehenge 3 - The Heel Stone and the Avenue

Stonehenge 3 - The Heel Stone and the Avenue

The large leaning stone near the path is the Heel Stone, a natural, unshaped sarsen unlike the shaped stones in the circle

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Stonehenge 4 - The Stones

Stonehenge 4 - The Stones

What makes Stonehenge unique is the arrangement of its stones and the fact that they were brought from long distances

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Stonehenge 5 - View of the Barrows

Stonehenge 5 - View of the Barrows

If you turn away from Stonehenge and look out into the landscape in almost any direction, you’ll see lots of grass covered mounds. These are round barrows

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Stonehenge 6 - The ‘Back View’

Stonehenge 6 - The ‘Back View’

Stonehenge is a circular monument, so it may surprise you to hear that you’re looking at the ‘back’

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Stonehenge 7 - Aubrey Holes

Stonehenge 7 - Aubrey Holes

You should see a marker set into the path, and two more in the grass on either side. These show the position of three holes, dug about 5,000 years ago

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Stonehenge 8 - Conservation and Restoration

Stonehenge 8 - Conservation and Restoration

When we look at Stonehenge today, we’re seeing it as a ruin, altered by more than 4,000 years of weathering, erosion and decay

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Shuttle bus back to the visitor centre

Return to the visitor centre

Stonehenge Visitor Centre Restaurant

Stonehenge Visitor Centre Restaurant

The café serves soup, hotpots, vegan and traditional pasties, vegan and traditional sausage rolls sandwiches, salads and other sweet and savoury items, using regional produce

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