Text: Stonehenge Preference:
preferred Text: Stone Henge Preference:
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Creation
Creator Description: unknown prehistoric
British
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Identity:
unknown prehistoric British Role:
architects
Authority
Authority
Creation Date: first phase: early
4th millennium BCE; second phase: early 3rd millennium
BCE; third phase: mid-2nd millennium BCE Date Qualifier: first phase
Earliest:
-3999 Latest:
-3700 Date Qualifier: second phase Earliest:
-2999 Latest:
-2700 Date Qualifier: third phase
Earliest:
-1700 Latest:
-1300
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Styles/Periods/ Groups/Movements
Indexing Terms:
Neolithic
Bronze
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Measurements
Dimensions Description: 6.7 m high
(22 feet), weighing up to 41 metric tons each (45.2
tons)
Text: Neolithic through Late Bronze
Age. Large standing stones surrounded by an earthwork,
dating from Neolithic Period to the Early Bronze Age;
studies suggest three building periods; religious
purposes are undetermined, but axial alignments to
the sun and moon exist. Comprises a series of concentric
rings of standing stones around an altar stone at
the center. The first ring has a horseshoe plan of
originally five trilithons, each of two upright stones
supporting a single colossal lintel. The current site
is considerably ruined, the stones greatly weathered
and many of the stones having been pilfered by medieval
and early modern builders.
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Citation: Encyclopedia Britannica online Page: accessed 24 February 2006