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STONEHENGEBy Morgan Sondgeroth
Brooklynne Thielen
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Stonehenge was built in the English county of Wiltshire on the Salisbury
Plain approximately 5,000 years ago or around 1500 BC
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Stonehenge was built on a mound
with 56 holes forming a ring around the perimeter, small
packing stones were placed at the
base
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It is believed that the ditch was built with tools made of red deer antlers and wood
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2000 B.C. – The first stone circle (inner) was made with small blue
stones but was abandoned before it was completed
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Many believe that the blue stones are from the Prescelly Mountains on
the southwest tip of Wales
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Stones were believed to be dragged from inland mountains, then along the
southern coast of Wales and then up the rivers Awn and Frome, then down the River Wylye
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About 80 stones in all wereused to make Stonehenge. Each
small stone individually weighs about 4
tons the giant stones (sarsen stones)
weigh about 50 tons each
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Studies show that 600 men would have been needed to get each
stone passed obstacles along the way
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Levers would lower stones into the hole and the stones stood at
about 30° angles from the ground until men pulled ropes around the
stone to put it in proper, upright position
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The stones are aligned almost perfectly with the sunrise on the summer
solstice
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No one knows who actually built Stonehenge, but the best guess is the people of the Neolithic Period
(3000 BC)
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One Legend: Merlin brought stones to Salisbury Plain from Ireland and was
built, maybe, as a memorial
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Stones were believed (by Geoffrey of Monmwa) that Giants brought the
stones from Africa to Ireland and them
shipped back to britain
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Prehistorians attributed Stonehenge to Egyptian, Mediterranean and Greek
cultures during the 19th century
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It is also
believed that S
tonehenge
was used for p
erform
ing rituals,
worship
and healings
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Another legend is that the stones were stones from an Irish woman
by the Devil and rebuilt on the Salisbury Plain for the king
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Credits
http://www.britannia.com/history/h7.html http://www.stonehenge.co.uk/ http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoneheng
e?wasRedirected=true http://www.sacred-destinations.com/engl
and/stonehenge http://www.christiaan.com/stonehenge/in
dex.php http://www.mysteriousplaces.com/stoneh
enge/megaliths.html