What are facts about Stonehenge?

Answer 1

STONEHENGE

• stone henge is a megalithic rock
• 150 enormous stones
• set in a circular pattern
• located in wilshire, england
• was built somewhere between 3100-1100 BCE

Its believed over 30 million hoursof work went into building Stonehenge

• Stonehenge was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1986.
• No one knows who built the Stonehenge, but since it was built over a very long time, it may have been built by people of a series of cultures.
• The Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act of 1979 legally protects Stonehenge.
• The Stonehenge has a series of stone circles surrounded by a ditch and bank, along with trilithons in the center and a number of marker stones.
• A henge is a Neolithic circular earthwork not built for defense. Stonehenge has its name because it is a henge with standing stones.

1) It was constructed over a 1500 year period. 2) The bluestones were once part of another structure that also had lintels. 3) There is no evidence that it was ever an 'astronomical observatory'. 4) It was deigned on a prehistoric 'drawing board' - as a work of monumental mirrored symmetry. 5) It was set out using elementary geometry - by the application of ropes and pegs. 6) It is accurate to a few centimeters. 7) It was not a 'burial ground', cremation burials stopped when the large iconic sarsen stones stones arrived. 8) The ring of lintels was prefabricated off - site using a template. 9) It sits astride the axis of the longest and shortest days of the year- but faces the midwinter sunset. 10) Apart from the axis of the solstices there are no other 'alignments' within the Stonehenge arrays. ......If you want to learn more just Google the words 'Solving Stonehenge'.
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