Mysterious Sprinklers of Stonehenge

I spent the last couple of weeks in the UK, and had a little bit of time to do some sight-seeing on the weekend. So I went to visit Stonehenge. I was struck by just how little anybody knows about the place.

We don't know exactly who built it, why they built it, how they built it, or what it was used for. The audio tour started to get a little comical. It was constantly starting off with a phrase like "while we can't say for sure why it was built" and then going off on some wild-ass conjecture.

Toward the end of the line, I came across a sprinkler watering the grass. I imagined what the audio tour would say about it:





"While we don't know exactly who installed the sprinkler head, experts have theorized that it serves as some sort of irrigation device. Others, however, point to the lack of agriculture in the region and speculate that ancient nature worshippers built it as an homage to water - one of the fundamental elements known to the ancient world. One thing we know for sure, though, is that it is a significant archaeological find."