Stonehenge
Formal analysis

Stu.Name : Omar Al Salti
ID: U14110165

Stonehenge has stood alone on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England., a mysterious legacy of a vanished culture. Today it is flanked by two busy roads and its visitor center attracts million tourists from all over the world. Yet only 50 years ago it was a still quiet and empty place.

stonehenge is a prehistoric monument without parallel . it was built by an ancient civilization over 4,000 years ago. The location was first marked 10,000 years ago. The most noticeable structure that we see at Stonehenge today is a circle of upright sarsens with some horizontal lintels perched on top of them. The sarsens are large slabs of sandstone like rock that were probably obtained …show more content…
The first phase began about 2900BCE with excavation of two concentric circular ditches. Inside the perimeter, fifty-six evenly spaced holes ( the Aubrey holes ) were dug and filled with chalk , while a northeasterly line of sight to the horizon was established from the center across a pointed upright ( the heel stone ) outside the ditches.
About 2400BCE eighty-two coffin-sized stones of grey-blue dolerite, weighting about two tons each , were transported from the quarries in the pressely mountains of Wales and erected in a double ring of thirty-eight pairs, with six extra stones defining the northeast approach axis.
The third final phase involved transporting thirty-five lintels and forty sarcen stones weighting up to twenty tons each. These were erected in a circle of thirty uprights enclosing five trilithons arranged in a U-shape to focus on the avenue , the axis leading northeast toward the heel stone. Knobs left on the tops of the uprights fit into socket holes carved into the undersides of the lintels , so that the stones lock together in a mortise-and-tenon joint when correctly …show more content…
The color of the monument is the faded gray-blue of the stones. The techniques used when jointing the stones is very similar to wood working.

The reason why The Stonehenge was built is still a mystery to many archeologists. Understanding the Stonehenge requires knowledge of the Early Mesolithic use of Salisbury Plain. There’s a theory that says they built it to let them know about timing and to know seasons, or probably for doing a special events according to their traditions.
The Stonehenge is a very important monument in history, Although it's true meaning is an unknown mystery, Stonehenge represents the culmination of constructing skill and scientific observation in the prehistoric era because its builders met the challenge of moving and shaping massive stones , bluestones from Wales were transported largely by water over 190 miles to the site which is a really hard and massive work, it represents a place of worship and power. Indeed this structure deserves to be remembered and visited.

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