Stonehenge World Heritage

The county of Wiltshire contains the most famous stone circles in the world: Stonehenge & Avebury. The meaning of the circles remains a mystery to this day but, together with their surroundings, they form an important testament to pre-history.

Stonehenge, at the centre of Salisbury Plain, is a great place for people who love prehistory. Remnants of old burial mounds and ancient roads can be found here. Stonehenge is one of the most mysterious structures in England. The remains display a long history. It was recently discovered that people had lived here from 5000 BC. The latest research has revealed that Stonehenge was built in four different stages from around 3000 BC.
Stonehenge consists of a number of stone circles, which are surrounded by a ditch and a bank. The solitary Heel stone stands outside the ditch and bank. The first circle inside the bank consisted of 56 holes, the Aubrey holes, named after their discoverer John Aubrey. The next circle consisted of a ring of vertical stones, so-called sarsen stone. Inside stood a ring of 60 bluestones and at the centre stands a stone circle in the shape of a horseshoe. Many stones such as the slaughter and altar stone have fallen down, but maybe they will be restored to their former glory one day.

Stonehenge is officially designated by UNESCO as "World Heritage Site",

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[Darkjoka13]

Watching This Video Makes My Balls Itch!!!!

[vitaly4444]

AHAHA!!! stupid Brits monkeys! Stonehenge is a falsification! fake! forgery!

[sonofherne]

Thanks a lot. I work industry so to speak. Stonehenge is my circle. It resonates a lot with me and I also choose to do a lot of study too, primarily neolithic & bronze age burial ritual.

[Ziggyztarz]

You know a lot about stone & rocks, it's something I've been interested in since I was at College and was the 'Ex-Curricular' study I chose. I still find it amazing how those stones were formed over the Millenia, 'blows my mind'!

[sonofherne]

It's a theory that the blue stone may also have also been 'laying around' so to speak since the Ice Age. It's entirely plausible they did not have to go to Preseli to collect the rock. it may have been on the plains or the Brecon Beacons for ages. It takes nothing away from the scale of the construction to think they just cannabalised rock that was freely available, rather than trek over 200 miles across hill, dale and treacherous coastal tides to get such "imperfect" examples of blue stone.

[sonofherne]

The stonehenge blue stone is a dolerite not sandstone like your pennant. It's a composite of volcanic ash, ryolite and other tuffs. It's a blue black in colour with white flecks.

[Ziggyztarz]

Yes you are right the larger 'Sarsen' stones are local, they had been laying about since the last 'Ice Age' and like the circle at Avebury, they were used to decorate the skyline in a similar fashion.

[sweetjemimer]

probably not, there are some amazing birds on the plains. we walked back from stonehenge this morning at 5 am and you could hear them

[BizzyLizzy132]

yes the blue pennant

[sonofherne]

No, only the smaller blue stones originate in Wales. The larger sarsen stones are LOCAL!