Follow the Southampton’s adventure of Marguerite and Guilhem from the IEMN-IAE, Nantes, France.
Summary Episode :
Discover the fancy city of Bath and its Roman-baths and try to solve the mystery of Stonehenge…
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Music theme : Joachim Pastor – Joda (Worakls remix)
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Episode Script :
Hi guys ! We are very excited to release our second video !
We will today introduce you to the mystery of Stonehenge, but now we are taking you to Bath and its roman Bath ! Hope you’re going to like it !
On a sunny Sunday we left Southampton to go to Bath and Stonehenge as part of a guided tour designed specifically for Erasmus people.
The trip was organised by a London-based company which aims to show the English Heritage throughout United Kingdom to foreigners.
Bath
The first stop of our travel was in Bath.
Bath is a city in the ceremonial county of Somerset, England, well known for its Roman-built baths.
The city is also well known for being fancy resort area for famous people, such as the royal family.
An important feature is that all the houses of the city do not like others in England, because they have been built in a specific, local, sort of stone.
Bath Stone is a freestone, that means it can be sawn or ‘squared up’ in any direction, unlike other rocks such as slate, which forms distinct layers.
After some explanations about the city and its past, we have visited the Roman Baths complex which is a site of historical interest.
The house is a well-preserved Roman site for public bathing.
Romans were coming there from far to enjoy a bath in the ‘Aquae Sulis’ protected by the goddess Sulis Minerva.
They were believing that the stream in the water was the goddess breathing.
Stonehenge
We then headed back toward Southampton to explore the mysterious Stonehenge.
Iconic symbol of Britain, a walk around the Stone Circle is the centrepiece of any visit to United Kingdom.
How did Neolithic people build it using only the simple tools and technologies available to them?
It would have taken huge effort, from hundreds of well-organised people, using only simple tools and technologies.
The bluestones, or in other words the smaller stones at Stonehenge, were brought 240 miles from the Preseli mountains in Wales and weigh between 2 and 5 tons each !
Stonehenge evolved from a simple bank and ditch in the Neolithic period, some 5,000 years ago, to a very sophisticated stone circle built on the axis of the midsummer sunrise.
The Stone Circle is a masterpiece of engineering, and building ! The stones are perfectly shaped and raised in order to align The main axis of the stones upon the solstitial axis.
There are many stories about the significance of Stonehenge.
It may have been an astronomical observatory, as it is built on the axis of the midsummer sunrise first told us a guide.
We were also told that Stonehenge could have been used for sacred rituals linked to the sun, (you know nothing) successful crops, (you know nothing) or even the slain (you know nothing)
Well, we simply don’t know ! We still know nothing about Stonehenge…
