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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 ...
Durrington Walls is the site of a large Neolithic settlement and later henge enclosure located in the Stonehenge World Heritage Site in England. It lies 2 miles (3.2 km) north-east of Stonehenge in the parish of Durrington, just north of Amesbury in Wiltshire.
Stonehenge, Wiltshire, England, built c. 3000–2500 BC The Neolithic site of Silbury Hill in Wiltshire, southern England (c. 2400 BC), is one example of the large ceremonial monuments constructed across the British Isles in this period. The Neolithic period in the British Isles lasted from c. 4100 to c. 2,500 BC. [1]
Now researchers have suggested that the stone circle at Stonehenge, built during this period, may have been designed to unite early farming communities across Britain in response to the influx of ...
Stonehenge is largely comprised of two categories of stones: sarsen and bluestone. The large sarsen stones primarily came from an area about 16 miles north of the monument. The Altar Stone is ...
The iconic Altar Stone at the center of Stonehenge in southern England was likely moved over hundreds of miles nearly 5,000 ... considering the technological constraints of the Neolithic era, as ...
The Stonehenge Riverside Project was a major Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded archaeological research study of the development of the Stonehenge landscape in Neolithic and Bronze Age Britain.
And nearly half the Neolithic people buried near Stonehenge came from somewhere other than Salisbury Plain. The new research adds a political twist to the backstory of a rebuilt Stonehenge.