A henge in nickname only, this one is included in honour of tomorrow, which is Thanksgiving in the States. Maize, or corn as its called in English-speaking America, is a traditional Thanksgiving food. Referred to jokingly by locals as Cornhenge, this monument may seem inexplicable, but here’s some ’splainin‘. And here’s a brighter picture of it on Flickr.
As a Stonehenge replica, this can’t rate more than 3 druids, but as a piece of eccentric pseudo-megalithia, if we may coin a term, we think it rates pretty well. Oh, and happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate. Don’t forget to make a henge with your leftovers and send us a picture!
A video for this post: some people from the collaborative production game SFZero came together to create a circle of door trilithons in a public but undisclosed location. Later videos show them dancing a victory dance as a policeman approaches, and then discussing the installation with the sceptical but tolerant copper.
The henge turns out pretty well, and its guerilla art quality gains it points from me. 7½ druids for this daring performance henge!
This is a famous or perhaps infamous take on the henge idea by the street artist Banksy. If you don’t know who Banksy is, read this. He created this art installation for the Glastonbury music festival in 2007 and took his own picture of it, complete with druid. One wonders, did anyone use the portaloos while they were in the henge formation? To be inside a henge stone might in this case have been, well, a head-y experience.
More pictures of it here on Flickr. To his credit, Banksy called the work, “a pile of crap.” We appreciate his whimsy and we give it 7 druids, not counting the one he added himself.
This blog is meant to form a searchable list of Stonehenge replicas from the megalithic follies of the 1800's to the present. Use the search function below to search for your nation or state, for example, or search for replicas by material, for example foamhenge, snowhenge or laptophenge. The blog includes well over 200 examples of imitation Stonehenges from a silicon microstructure to huge permanent replicas and everything in between.
We invite readers to inform us of modern henges we may have missed. Comments about what motivates people to build Stonehenge replicas are also welcome!
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Want to send us a 'henge' or Stonehenge replica? Send your photos of henges, large or small, edible or nonedible, to nancy.wisser at gmail.com, substituting an @ sign and deleting the spaces. We encourage eccentricity!
All readers are encouraged to visit large permanent Stonehenge replicas posted here (or even better, any not yet posted here!) and send us Guest Scores, which will be added to the original post. Send opinions and impressions, as well as photos, and we may add them to the post if we feel they add something, or we may use them to do a new post, with a link to the old one, of course under your name. Idea thanks to hengophile (hengeophile?) Simon Burrow.
See the Heritage Journal article here.
Easton, PA's Express Times article here.
And we're mentioned in the Falling Water Newsletter, here.
Mentioned on News Over Coffee, our hometown news blog, here.
