What is a description of Stonehenge?

Answer 1

Stonehenge, as most people know it was built within a circular 'henge' earthwork around 2,500- 2400 BC, the henge had already been there for some 500 years. There were earlier structures (of so called 'Bluestone' - rhyolite from West Wales), archaeologists are are unsure exactly how much earlier, the original structure was entirely dismantled. The Bluestones were then set in and around the massive sandstone (sarsen) monument, mimicing its form and geometry. The final phase of building seems to have been aborted, the Y & Z holes around the outside of the Circle, dug around 1700 or so BC; no stones were placed in these holes.

Answer 2

Stonehenge dates back thousands of years. Well before the stones were erected there was burial grounds and a wooden henge. People have lived and hunted on the Salisbury plains since the earliest times. They mined flint for tools and hunting and built a road leading to sites that seemed to have been used for worship. Around the Stones we see today are burial sites and in concentric circles. When the Romans visited Stonehenge it was all ready an ancient site.

Answer 3

Archeologists are still arguing about WHY Stonehenge was built but they think that it has been there for about 3000 years.