{"id":7348,"date":"2010-06-22T02:25:26","date_gmt":"2010-06-22T01:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=7348"},"modified":"2011-09-08T02:41:20","modified_gmt":"2011-09-08T01:41:20","slug":"stonehenge-panorama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/06\/22\/stonehenge-panorama\/","title":{"rendered":"Stonehenge panorama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/history\/programmes\/stonehenge\/flash\/panorama.swf\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/stonehenge.jpg\" alt=\"stonehenge.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I would have posted this for the Solstice yesterday had it not been for the <a href=\"http:\/\/chronophage.johnctaylor.com\/gallery\/image_show.php?gallid=midsum\" target=\"_blank\">Chronophage<\/a>. The panorama is at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/history\/programmes\/stonehenge\/flash\/panorama.swf\" target=\"_blank\">a BBC page<\/a> since the corporation is one of the few organisations with the weight to gain permission to photograph the stones up close. Unless you&#8217;re an archaeologist or an English Heritage official your view is restricted to the path which surrounds the monument, something you can experience via <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/cWWzlz\" target=\"_blank\">Google Maps<\/a>. There did used to be exceptions to this. I was fortunate to be at the Stonehenge Festival in 1982 which took place for a few days over Midsummer in one of the fields a short distance away. On Solstice Day the people from English Heritage let everyone\u2014festival-goers and bemused tourists alike\u2014wander inside the circle where a couple of pagan weddings took place. A couple of years later further festivals were prevented with heavy police action so I feel privileged to have been there on that day.<\/p>\n<p>There was more Stonehenge recently at <a href=\"http:\/\/bldgblog.blogspot.com\/2010\/06\/stonehenge-at-night-1944.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bldg Blog<\/a> with a post about Harold Egerton&#8217;s stunning photograph of the stones at night. And while we&#8217;re on the subject, let&#8217;s not forget <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themodernantiquarian.com\/site\/455\/woodhenge.html\" target=\"_blank\">Woodhenge<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/easyweb.easynet.co.uk\/~aburnham\/eng\/seahenge.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Seahenge<\/a> , Timisoara&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.360cities.net\/image\/panorama1-3#114.64,-7.25,70.0\" target=\"_blank\">Stonehedge<\/a>, and the Ballardesque <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carhenge.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Carhenge<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/the-panoramas-archive\/\">The panoramas archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would have posted this for the Solstice yesterday had it not been for the Chronophage. The panorama is at a BBC page since the corporation is one of the few organisations with the weight to gain permission to photograph the stones up close. Unless you&#8217;re an archaeologist or an English Heritage official your view &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/06\/22\/stonehenge-panorama\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stonehenge panorama&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,12,31],"tags":[148,1438,269,146,3803],"class_list":["post-7348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-photography","category-religion","tag-bruges","tag-harold-egerton","tag-panoramas","tag-prague","tag-stonehenge"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-1Uw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}