STONEHENGE By Morgan Sondgeroth Brooklynne Thielen
Jan 29, 2016
STONEHENGEBy Morgan Sondgeroth
Brooklynne Thielen
Stonehenge was built in the English county of Wiltshire on the Salisbury
Plain approximately 5,000 years ago or around 1500 BC
Stonehenge was built on a mound
with 56 holes forming a ring around the perimeter, small
packing stones were placed at the
base
It is believed that the ditch was built with tools made of red deer antlers and wood
2000 B.C. – The first stone circle (inner) was made with small blue
stones but was abandoned before it was completed
Many believe that the blue stones are from the Prescelly Mountains on
the southwest tip of Wales
Stones were believed to be dragged from inland mountains, then along the
southern coast of Wales and then up the rivers Awn and Frome, then down the River Wylye
About 80 stones in all wereused to make Stonehenge. Each
small stone individually weighs about 4
tons the giant stones (sarsen stones)
weigh about 50 tons each
Studies show that 600 men would have been needed to get each
stone passed obstacles along the way
Levers would lower stones into the hole and the stones stood at
about 30° angles from the ground until men pulled ropes around the
stone to put it in proper, upright position
The stones are aligned almost perfectly with the sunrise on the summer
solstice
No one knows who actually built Stonehenge, but the best guess is the people of the Neolithic Period
(3000 BC)
One Legend: Merlin brought stones to Salisbury Plain from Ireland and was
built, maybe, as a memorial
Stones were believed (by Geoffrey of Monmwa) that Giants brought the
stones from Africa to Ireland and them
shipped back to britain
Prehistorians attributed Stonehenge to Egyptian, Mediterranean and Greek
cultures during the 19th century
It is also
believed that S
tonehenge
was used for p
erform
ing rituals,
worship
and healings
Another legend is that the stones were stones from an Irish woman
by the Devil and rebuilt on the Salisbury Plain for the king
Credits
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and/stonehenge http://www.christiaan.com/stonehenge/in
dex.php http://www.mysteriousplaces.com/stoneh
enge/megaliths.html