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2. Stonehenge - Wikipedia

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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 ...

3. Scientists think they know why Stonehenge was rebuilt ... - AOL

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   Stonehenge was also the largest burial ground of its time, lending support to the idea that the site may have been used as a religious temple, a solar calendar and an ancient observatory all in one.

4. Theories about Stonehenge - Wikipedia

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   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.

5. Stonehenge replicas and derivatives - Wikipedia

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   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".

6. The search for the origin of Stonehenge’s mysterious Altar ...

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   Construction on Stonehenge began as early as 3000 BC and occurred over several phases, according to previous research, and the Altar Stone is believed to have been placed within the central ...

7. Scientists may have discovered the true purpose behind ...

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   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 ...

8. Archaeoastronomy and Stonehenge - Wikipedia

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   Stonehenge has an opening in the henge earthwork facing northeast, and suggestions that particular significance was placed by its builders on the solstice and equinox points have followed. For example, the summer solstice Sun rose close to the Heel Stone, and the Sun's first rays shone into the centre of the monument between the horseshoe ...

9. Century-old theory of where Stonehenge’s Altar Stone came ...

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   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 ...