What was Stonehenge used for ?
How and why was it built?
As many questions that still haven't found an answer yet
Stonehenge is one of the UK’s most visited tourist attractions – and one of the world’s most enigmatic ancient monuments. People come from all over the world to stare at the iconic stone pillars and wonder how, and why, they were put in place.
What is Stonehenge exactly ?
Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument in Wiltshire, England, 2 miles (3 km) west of Amesbury. It consists of a ring of standing stones, with each standing stone around 13 feet (4.0 m) high, 7 feet (2.1 m) wide and weighing around 25 tons. The stones are set within earthworks in the middle of the most dense complex of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments in England, including several hundred burial mounds.
Archaeologists believe it was constructed from 3000 BC to 2000 BC.
Unanswered questions about Stonehenge
- Why is Stonehenge at Stonehenge?
- Where did they get stone slabs that big ?
- Was Stonehenge built all in once or built in stages, spanning a much longer periods up to hundreds of years?
- Who really built Stonehenge ?
- And many many more questions...
Indeed, the site may be instantly recognisable, but there is far more to it than first meets the eye. As archaeologists study this area, mystery after mystery unfolds. But a coherent story may be beginning to emerge.
That has been particularly true over the last decade. Researchers have been studying not just the monument itself, but the area around it, hoping to find clues in this intriguing landscape of prehistoric monuments.
Here are some answers to the question of who built Stonehenge: https://www.readersdigest.co.uk/inspire/life/intriguing-mysteries-who-really-built-stonehenge
I also will give you the link of a very interesting article written by the BBC stating the fact that we may have solved the Stonehenge mistery . Its secret would have been revealed by an underground map.
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-29126854
And here some theories on why Stonhenge was built:
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170713-why-stonehenge-was-built