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Today, Visitors Experience Stonehenge As A Wonder Of Ancient Achievement And An Enduring Symbol Of Mystery. But Stonehenge Was Built As A Temple - A Place Of Ceremony, Of Burial And Of Celebration. The First Stonehenge Was Simple - Just A Circular Ditch And Bank, Perhaps With A Few Small Upright Timber Posts Or Stones - And Was Constructed About 5,000 Years Ago, In The Period Of Prehistory Known As The Neolithic Or New Stone Age.by About 2500 Bc More And Much Larger Stones Had Been Brought To The Site, Huge Sarsen Stones From North Wiltshire And Smaller Bluestones From West Wales. This Marked The Beginning Of Over 800 Years Of Construction And Alteration Stretching Into The Period Known As The Bronze Age, When The First Metal Tools And Weapons Were Made. By This Time Stonehenge Was The Greatest Temple In Britain, Its Banks, Ditches And Standing Stones Arranged In Sophisticated Alignments To Mark The Passage Of The Sun And The Changing Seasons. But Stonehenge Was Just One Part Of A Remarkable Ancient Landscape. Hundreds Of Burial Mounds Clustered On The Surrounding Hilltops, While Smaller Temples And Other Ceremonial Sites Were Built Nearby. Stonehenge And These Other Ancient Struct

Author

Julian Richards; English Heritage; Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England

Publisher

[London]: English Heritage

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781848022409

Subjects

History, Humanities

Rating

5 / 5 (27 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14