Summer solstice celebrated at Stonehenge despite rain: Revellers ignore damp conditions
Rain-sodden crowds welcomed a spectacularly wet summer solstice at Stonehenge . . . But through the wind and rain, drummers inside the ancient stone circle kept up their thumping rhythm, new age pagans kept up their chaotic dance . . .
The climax of the ceremony, which took place at the pockmarked Heel Stone at the edge of Stonehenge, involved chants of “All hail the sun!” even though the sun was nowhere to be seen amid the thin grey-white fog that settled around the Stonehenge’s muddy fields.
