The Stonehenge was during the Neolithic Megaliths period. Megaliths means Big stone, and monoliths means a single piece of rock placed within a monument. The Stonehenge is exactly that a Big stone placed within a monument. Located in Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire,England is the Stonehenge. The first phase of the Stonehenge was built around 3100 B.C.E. The second phase started about 100-200 years later and the third phase started about 400-500 years after that. The grand total build time for the Stonehenge took about 1500 years. The Stonehenge is one of the most well known monument. Currently the Stonehenge is one of the most sophisticated and orly serving linteled stone circle in the world, hence why so many people around the world come to see …show more content…
After much more research they believe that the second phase was used as a burial and 25-35 holes were emptied to the cremation burials. Its also suspected that another 30 creation burials plots were dug in the ditch of the henge. There were men from the ages of 25-40 buried here, those who died from diseases and others in good health with no sign of hard labor. Theres a thought that the Stonehenge could be a elite brutal place for the first political leaders of Great Britain during this time. It was the largest cremation cemeteries known in Neolithic Britain. Its to believed that it contains more than 350 burial mounds. The final phase of the Stonehenge construction started 400-500 years after phase 2 was finished. During this phase of the construction the people building the monument put the rest of the remaining bluestones and wooden beams in the Aubrey holes and made into a circle. The circle ended up being 108 feet in diameter and 30 huge very hard sarsen stones were within the henge. The sarsen circle is what it became known as and was a continuous circle of sandstone posts. Each of the post weighing about 50 tons and all standing about 20 feet high. The stones came from quarry which is about 20-30 miles away. Each of the 5 trilithons was set up in a upside down U shape similar to a horseshoe that was 45 feet across. These would be a 5 post and Lintel construction. The only part of the U that still stands and rises roughly 22 feet with another 8 feet below the ground level. The ditch on the eastern side is deeper because half of it was excavated in the 1920’s. Within the circle there was a smaller circle that had about 80 stones and were from southern Wales which was 150-250 miles away from the Stonehenge. After each and every stone was picked out it was then transported 23 miles to the