Saturday, 25 February 2012

Stonehenge

I have always been interested in Stonehenge, how it got there? who did it? did people make it? I find it crazy that these huge rocks got there and were put in this form, it makes you think how it was even possible back when it was built.  First of I'll talk about Stonehenge and give some background information.






Stonehenge is estimated to have been created around 3100BC it is found in Wiltshire, UK.  basically it is a circular setting of large stones placed in certain forms.  It is said that Stonehenge was under construction for over 1500 yrs, evidence of this construction is found on and around the monument. 

Stonehenge is said to have been produced by a culture that left no written record, so we will truly never know what this monument was made for and why it was even made.  There is also still no critical evidence showing the construction techniques that were used to create Stonehenge as well as how the stones got there.  There have been suggestions that Stonehenge was a place of warship or that it was a multi usage are, but truly we will not know what it was made for.

Stonehenge is and always has been a great mystery to everyone who has not only studied it but even heard about it.  I find it a great interest and would love to go visit it sometime and see what it is like up close, it is just hard to image people moving these stones and setting them like this before machinery was invented!

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