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Stonehenge: Perhaps the world's oldest clock. For over 5,000 years it has marked the sunrise of the mid-winter and mid-summer solstice. (Will your millennium clock still be so accurate in the year 7000 AD?)
Midsummer was important since it was the prime time for conception. Until the introduce of artificial light most children were born in Spring around the Vernal Equinox - hence the importance of mid-summer.
Down the ages there as been much debate as to its origin and importance. In the 17th century Inigo Jones (architect of the Queen's House in Greenwich) thought that it was built as a Roman Temple
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