Stonehenge 2.0 - private chauffeur tour

Stonehenge visitor centre

Stonehenge Visitor Centre has exhibitions, Neolithic artefacts, reconstructed houses, a cafe and a gift shop before the shuttle or walk to the stones

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

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Exhibit 101 - Building Stonehenge

This case contains excavated objects from Stonehenge, including deer antlers used as picks to dig the large circular ditch around the monument

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Exhibit 102 - Durrington Walls

Durrington Walls was a late Neolithic village near Stonehenge, and finds from the site help explain the people who raised the stones and gathered nearby

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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

After Stonehenge’s main building phase, early Bronze Age communities buried their dead under mounds around the monument, creating one of Britain’s great barrow landscapes

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Exhibit 105 - Timeline & Models

A visitor-centre exhibit using archaeological objects, multimedia and hands-on displays to show the story of Stonehenge, its landscape and the people who built it

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Neolithic houses

The Neolithic Houses at Stonehenge are reconstructed dwellings beside the visitor and exhibition centre, showing how the monument's builders may have lived

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Shuttle bus to the henge

Leaves from outside the gift shop

Stonehenge 1 - Start of audio tour

Welcome to Stonehenge, one of the world's most famous prehistoric monuments. The first henge was built about 3000 BC and the unique stone circle was erected about 2500 BC

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

Stonehenge 3 - The Heel Stone and the Avenue

The Heel Stone is a huge unshaped sarsen outside Stonehenge’s north-east entrance, beside the Avenue that once linked the monument to the River Avon

Stonehenge 4 - The Stones

Notice how Stonehenge uses different kinds of stone in a carefully arranged circle and horseshoe, creating one of Europe's best-known prehistoric monuments

Stonehenge 5 - View of the Barrows

Turn away from Stonehenge and look across the landscape to spot the grass-covered burial mounds known as round barrows

Stonehenge 6 - The ‘Back View’

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

Stonehenge 7 - Aubrey Holes

Three small markers show part of the Aubrey Hole ring: pits dug about 5,000 years ago before the central stone circle was built

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

Shuttle bus back to the visitor centre

Return to the visitor centre

Stonehenge Visitor Centre Restaurant

The cafe serves soup, vegan and traditional pasties, sandwiches, baguettes, salads, Rock Cakes and other sweet and savoury items, using regional produce

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