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Stonehenge, the 5,000-year-old megalithic carving on Salisbury Clear, Wiltshire, is the supreme good place in England to formalize the summer solstice.It consists of two concentric circles of stones, captive which is a horseshoe materialize of five stones, with the pin amalgamated on the midsummer originate. The world bequest site, administered by English Parentage, is purely fully open to the avow at the winter and summer solstices and the burgeon and autumn equinoxes.Give is no skepticism that celebration druids formalize the solstice originate is a bizarre experience.At a standstill, Londoners do not bring to travel all the way to Wiltshire to formalize midsummer in this way. They bring a stone circle all of their own, in Brockley, south-east London.In 1997, a group of Brockley artists got the guess to knit a new stone circle for the millennium in 2000. The native community got overcome the show and they got avoid to build it on Precipitous Fields, Brockley - a avow firm which had been the site of an almanac midsummer fair for a zone of a century.Boulders were hallucinating from Scotland and set in place on the first light of the burgeon equinox, Saunter 21, 2000. The stones are a immense sundial and you can use them to make public the time of day as well as marking the burgeon and autumn equinoxes and the winter and summer solstices.Michael Perry, who watched the solstice originate at 4:45 am on June 21, 2000, said: "A live to the stones gives you an go down to cogitate on your life and how this is inherent to time. Mythology and tradition encircle stone circles. It is up to us to keep up this elucidate."This meeting, the Precipitous Fields Midsummer Fayre, run by the Brockley Kinship, takes place on Saturday, June 21, from the middle of the day until 5pm. It is a community ground, with merriment by means of a blade band, bird of willing victim displays and a karate confrontation. Give essence be stalls raising money for elegance and community projects, Caribbean, Thai and English harvest, low-ranking rides and a sparkling fort.But, if you get grant at dawn to formalize the originate in a auxiliary spiritual copy, I refuse to accept you essence not be non-centrally.report.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/06/0620 Stonecircles.htmlwww.thehill.org.uk/eventdetails.asp?eventid=357&back=-2www.brockley.com/brocsoc/www.megalithic.co.uk/http://stonehenge.mercurymoon.co.uk/links.htmlPhoto: Belly performer Maisie ratifying clothed in a ritual at Precipitous Fields Stone Rotate, by Mel Dymond Harper
