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Stonehenge 1875 family photo may be earliest at monument
- 8bitsrule 7y agoThat's pretty early. This supposedly realistic watercolour from the 1570s was created by a Dutch artist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Stonehenge_Lucas_de_Heere.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Stonehenge_Lucas_de_Heere... There's another drawing here from ~1740. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/stonehenge-souvenirs https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/stonehenge-souvenirs
- blotter_paper 7y ago> The earliest known photograph of Stonehenge, not featuring a family, is thought to date from 1853 - 22 years earlier.
- ggm 7y agohttps://www.newscientist.com/article/dn310-concrete-evidence/ https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn310-concrete-evidence... Most of the one million visitors who visit Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain every year believe they are looking at untouched 4,000-year-old remains. But virtually every stone was re-erected, straightened or embedded in concrete between 1901 and 1964, says a British doctoral student. These photos may be good evidence of realignment and alteration since the big sarsen falls in the eighteenth century.
- kzzzznot 7y agoThanks for that information. It always struck me as strange how these massive stones haven’t suffered by sinking into the ground.
- pgnas 7y agoThanks! Yes, very true, there are pictures of them being restored.
- technothrasher 7y agoHmm, I seem to remember when I last visited Stonehenge that they said right up front that the stones had been screwed with in the early 20th century. Maybe not, I could have seen that elsewhere. It's been probably 20 years since I've been there.
- jajag 7y agoIt's true of a lot of ancient sites; Newgrange in Ireland is essentially a modern reconstruction, complete with a reinforced concrete substructure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newgrange#Modern_conservation,_archaeological_investigation_and_reconstruction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newgrange#Modern_conservation,...
- fortran77 7y agoWhat a difference between the set of photos! The dignified, prim, well-dressed families in the early days, and the more recent photos they showed at the bottom of the piece.
- jghn 7y agoIt is likely that the people in the earlier photos were more well to do than the people in the later photos.