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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 mortise and tenon joints, a feature unique among ...
During 2017 and 2018, excavations by Pearson's team at Waun Mawn, a small and unimpressive-seeming fragmentary stone circle in the Preseli Hills, revealed that the site had originally housed a 110 metre diameter stone circle of the same size as Stonehenge's original bluestone circle, and also like it, oriented towards the summer solstice.
Stonehenge was built over several phases, the first was a circular ditch and bank constructed around 5,000 years ago with a ring of 56 timber or stone posts.
In Arthurian legend, Mount Killaraus (Latin: mons Killaraus) is a legendary place in Ireland where Stonehenge originally stood. According to the narrative presented in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, King Ambrosius Aurelianus embarks on a quest to construct a memorial for the Celtic Britons who were treacherously slain by Anglo-Saxons.
Stonehenge’s Altar Stone, which lies at the heart of the ancient monument in southern England, was likely transported over 435 miles (700 kilometers) from what’s now northeastern Scotland ...
A chemical fingerprint taken of Stonehenge’s Altar Stone reveals that it isn’t from Wales, as was previously understood. Instead, researchers believe that the stone came from the Orcadian ...
Stonehenge II in Texas is a concrete sculpture inspired by the original. The Clarke Memorial Fountain , also nicknamed Stonehenge, is a war memorial on the campus of the University of Notre Dame . Stroudhenge: East Stroudsburg University , in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania , has a small replica located on its campus called "Stroudhenge".
Stonehenge was likely built as a project to unify ancient peoples from across the whole of the country, archaeologists claim in a new study.. More than 900 stone circles have been discovered ...