Item 01: Sydney B. Young war diary, 13 May-24 July 1916 - Page 79

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[Page 79]

To-night we visited the famous Stonehenge and from the guide, a policeman, learned the following information.
The Stonehenge was built about 1800 B.C. and is the ruins of a Druid's temple. It was built by the Phoenecians The largest stones came from Brittany in France and the smaller ones from Wales.
They consist of large stone pillars and stones lying across them.
Some of the stones have fallen. One, the biggest weighs 65 tons and fell

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