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Stonehenge
Questions about the complex of Stone Age circles and raised earthworks, located on Salisbury plain in Wiltshire, England.
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What is the main idea the building of Stonehenge?
The most recent theory (with some evidence to prove it) is that Stonehenge was built as a monument to the dead.
If you mean Stonehenge, the ancient circle of standing stones, it is on Salisbury Plain in England.
Why are Stonehenge stones found so far away?
The bluestones of Stonehenge are thought to have come from what is now Pembrokeshire, 250 km (16 miles) away. It was thought that men had moved them.
Another theory which is gaining support is that they were brought by the Irish Sea Glacier.
Stonehenge can be viewed as a example of the ability of early men to transport large objects, sometimes over considerable distances, and then erect them in their chosen location using only, allegedly, simple tools.
Is sarsen stone the same as sand stone?
Sarsen is a type of very hard sandstone, comprising fine sand grains bound in a silicaceous cement. It is generally regarded as being about five times harder than granite.
What is the name of ancient observatory in England?
Stonehenge is an ancient observatory that is aligned for the summer and winter solstice.
Was the Stonehenge constructed in BC or AD?
Stonehenge was constructed in BC which means Before Christ.
henge stone was raised by some ancient but scientific civilization which got eliminated by mutual fighting with nuclear or other lethal weapons
Where does the famous Stonehenge can be found?
Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument in Wiltshire, England
The builders of Stonehenge used a principle of construction called?
They used mortise and tenons to locate the lintels on the trilithons.
It could be said that it is the world's most famous prehistoric monument. Stonehenge was built in several stages. The first part was built 5,000 years ago and the stone circle was erected about 2500 BC. Modern scholars have found burial grounds in and around the site. Yet, its purpose is still not known why it was built. The stones in the circle have been brought all the way from Preseli Wales 200 miles from where Stonehenge sits on the Salisbury Plain. Today nearly a million people a year visit a site.
Astronomy
What religion is in Stonehenge?
We don't know, certainly not 'druids' but whoever created it they used geometry to design it - so sacred geometry was part of it.
you stand behind the left 33 degrees from the middle and 49 degrees to the bottom and every day u can go check to see the summer and winter solstice.
Hope that helps!
What is the secret of Stonehenge?
It depends what people want to regard as 'the secret'. Most would imagine the secret to be related to the question 'what was it for'. But there are no written records, no exact cosmological model. We have to work from the hard evidence in an attempt to get a glimpse of the mindset that inspired the construction. However it is possible to work out what the builders knew, and how those skills and knowledge were applied and to then determine a set of rules that contributed to its design. And that's very important - the design, most approaches are preoccupied with its purported final use, or the phenomenal engineering involved. It takes just a moments thought to understand it first had to be carefully worked out, surveyed and largely prefabricated, all these are retrievable details that take us inside the prehistoric mindset and a little closer to understanding 'what it was for'.
What anyone then chooses to make of this 'embedded knowledge' is something else, but the approach is more constructive than the grand theories which select parts of the evidence to fit a particular theme.
