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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 ...
Estimates of the manpower needed to build Stonehenge put the total effort involved at millions of hours of work. [citation needed] Stonehenge 1 probably needed around 11,000 man-hours (or 460 man-days) of work, Stonehenge 2 around 360,000 (15,000 man-days or 41 years). The various parts of Stonehenge 3 may have involved up to 1.75 million hours ...
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 ...
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.
A new study challenges the origins of Stonehenge.. In a new study published on Wednesday, Aug. 14, a group of researchers claim that the giant "Altar Stone" of the famed structure in Wiltshire ...
The European arrivals, called the Beaker people for the distinctive pottery that they buried with their dead, brought technology such as the wheel and metalworking with them.
The first comprehensive scientific analysis of Stonehenge's imposing megaliths has revealed some of the traits that made them an exemplary building material for the famed monument in southern ...
Map of Stonehenge monument and numbered plan of individual stones. The Altar Stone is made of a purplish-green micaceous sandstone and was thought to have originated from outcrops of the Senni Beds formation of the Old Red Sandstone in Wales, though this has not been fully established.