How Stonehenge Was Built
Stonehenge is a prehistoric megalithic structure on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England. It sits two miles west of Amesbury. An outer ring of vertical sarsen stones stands 13 feet high.
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Stonehenge is a prehistoric megalithic structure on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England. It sits two miles west of Amesbury.
An outer ring of vertical sarsen stones stands 13 feet high. Each weighs around 25 tons.
Construction began about 3100 BC with a circular bank and ditch. The ditch silted up naturally anyway.
Smaller bluestones came from the Preseli Hills, 150 miles away. A 2019 study found quarrying evidence.
In 2024, researchers matched the Altar Stone to rocks in the Orcadian Basin. Someone really hated packing light.
The Altar Stone traveled 430 miles.
Deposits containing human bone date from as early as 3000 BC.
The whole monument is aligned towards the sunrise on the summer solstice. The sun still shows up without a ticket.
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