The biggest thing we learned during our visit to Stonehenge is that there’s a lot more to this site than the stone circle you’ve seen in a National Geographic photo. It’s an amazingly large and rich archaeological site that’s estimated to be 5,000 years old and is designated a World Heritage site. We decided to make the about 1 ¼ mile trek from the visitors center to the stone circle by foot. This enabled us to see many of the prehistoric landscape earthworks and monuments that are part of the site – structures include the Curses, a rectangular earthwork monument almost 2 miles in length and burial mounds called Curses Barrows and the original approach to Stonehenge called The Avenue. While much has been discovered about the people who lived during this period and constructed the site, there’s much that’s still unknown.