Stonehenge

Savion Wilson: The Stonehenge

The Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument that stand in Wiltshire, England on the Salisbury Plain. It stands at a height of 24 feet and was supposedly designed by druids who were high celtic priest.
=The First Design= ====The monument has b een through many different types of designs. The first of them just being made of big rings. It dated around [|3100 B.C.]. It contained a ditch enclosure inside of it along with a bank and aubrey holes which were round pits in the chalk around one meter deep, wide with a flat bottom, very steep sides. They formed a circle about 285 feet (86.5 meters) in diameter and made for religious ceremonies. The builders of it placed bones of deer, oxen, and occasionally broken down flint tools in the bottom of the ditch. At the start it was surrounded by a natural Earth wall which measured around 320ft in diameter. Each stone inside stood 13 feet tall with a diameter of 97 feet and weighed 28 short tons. The inside of the outer ring included another ring made of blue stones that weighed about 4 short tons each. They called them "trilithons" and stood at 22ft tall with a total weight of 30-40 short tons. This design stood untouched for hundreds of years. ==== ======== =The Second Design=

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The Second Design of the Stonehenge dated around 2150 B.C. [|82 blue stone] that came from the Preseli Mountains, were added. In this stage not much was improved. The new stones had been added to the center to make another circle or a double ring that wasn't fully closed in. The original entrance inside of the stonehenge improved, turning out wided then it already was, also adding a heel stone at the front (Eastside) of the monument.======

=The Third Design=

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The third design dated around 2000 B.C. It added Sarsen stones to the building. The largest transport weighed 50 tons and would be to heavy for water which means it would have to be done by sledges and ropes. Calculations of today say it would take 500 men to haul the stones and 100 to put rollers in front of the sledges. The new stones moved to the outer circle. Inside of the circle 5 trillionths were placed in a horseshoe arrangement.======

=The Last Design=

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The last design dated around 1500 B.C. when the blue stones were put into a horseshoe shape in the middle which still stands today. The original number of stones was around 60 but now it has decreased due to natural environment and high winds. Since the time of the last change it has been heavily broken down but enough stones stand today to see the horseshoe partially.======

"Stonehenge." //World Book //. 2001st ed. vol. 18, 2001. Pg. 910

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