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Stonehenge
The most famous prehistoric
megalith
(standing-stone monument) in Europe, located 13 kilometers (8 miles) north of Salisbury in
Wiltshire, England. Excavations and radiocarbon dating have revealed that Stonehenge had
an exceptionally long history of use as a ceremonial or religious center or both.
Stonehenge was constructed
in three major phases over the period from around 3500 BC to 1100 BC. It originally began
as a circular ditch including a bank with a ring of 56 burial pits — named 'Aubrey
holes' for their seventeenth-century discoverer, John Aubrey. Around 2100 BC a double
circle of bluestone menhirs (large, rough-hewn standing stones), thought to have come from
the Preseli Mountains of southwestern Wales was erected within the earlier ring. In the
final stage of construction, from around 2000 BC, a circle of about 30 upright stones
(made from local sandstone called 'sarsen') were set up, their tops linked by lintelstones
to form a continuous circle about 30 meters (100 feet across). At a later date, around
1550 BC, the bluestones were finally rearranged in the circle and horseshoe whose remains
survive today.
Stonehenge is unique
because of its long period of use and the precision of its plan and its architectural
details. The traditional thesis that Stonehenge was a druid
temple is untenable, because the Druids did not appear in Britain until a few hundred
years before the Christian era. In
recent years many attempts have been made to interpret Stonehenge as a prehistoric
astronomical observatory, or some form of solar temple, but the site is now so ruined, and
so much restored, that any attempt to ascertain its original alignments must rely
principally on guesswork. All that can be said with confidence is that from around 2000 BC
onward the structure's axis of symmetry pointed roughly in the direction of the sunrise at
the summer solstice.
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