Stonehenge | History, Location, Map, Meaning, & Facts | Britannica
2024年10月2日 · Stonehenge was built in six stages between 3000 and 1520 bce, during the transition from the Neolithic Period (New Stone Age) to the Bronze Age.
Stonehenge ‑ Location, Definition & Age - HISTORY
2010年6月1日 · Why Was Stonehenge Built? Theories run the gamut, casting Stonehenge as anything from an ancient healing center to an alien landing site.
Stonehenge - Wikipedia
Stonehenge is a prehistoric megalithic structure on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, two miles (3 km) west of Amesbury. It consists of an outer ring of vertical sarsen standing stones, each around 13 feet (4.0 m) high, seven feet (2.1 m) wide, and weighing around 25 tons, topped by connecting horizontal lintel stones, held in place with ...
History of Stonehenge - English Heritage
Stonehenge is perhaps the world’s most famous prehistoric monument. It was built in several stages: the first monument was an early henge monument, built about 5,000 years ago, and the unique stone circle was erected in the late Neolithic period about 2500 BC. In the early Bronze Age many burial mounds were built nearby.
How was Stonehenge built? - British Museum
Publication date: 16 February 2022. Archaeologist Mike Pitts takes a closer look at how Stonehenge was constructed, and how people transported its huge stones to the famous site. If ever there was a construction that prompts questions, it is …
Stonehenge - World History Encyclopedia
2010年12月14日 · Stonehenge is a Neolithic / Bronze Age monument located on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, southern England. The first monument on the site, began around 3100 BCE, was a circular 'henge' earthwork about 360 feet (110 metres) in diameter, a 'henge' in the archaeological sense being a circular or oval-shaped flat area enclosed by a boundary earthwork.
An introduction to Stonehenge - British Museum
2021年12月7日 · When was Stonehenge built? Scientific dating techniques and painstaking archaeological research undertaken around the monument over the last few decades have brought the timeline of the site into focus.
Building Stonehenge - English Heritage
The first monument at Stonehenge was a circular earthwork enclosure, built in about 3000 BC. A ditch was dug with simple antler tools, and the chalk piled up to make an inner and an outer bank. Within the ditch was a ring of 56 timber or stone posts. The monument was used as a cremation cemetery for several hundred years.
A timeline of Stonehenge - English Heritage
The first Stonehenge was built about 5,000 years ago, in the period of prehistory known as the Neolithic. By about 2500 BC, more and much larger stones had been brought there, marking the start of over 800 years of building and alteration stretching into the Bronze Age.
Stonehenge | National Geographic
According to folklore, Stonehenge was created by Merlin, the wizard of Arthurian legend, who magically transported the massive stones from Ireland, where giants had assembled them.