Copy of The Stonehenge

The Stonehenge

The End

Julie Bauer

The Stonehenge today

• Huge tourist attraction

• Place for inspiration

• Sacred monument

Druids at Stonehenge

Stone circle?

• Monument of standing stones arranged in a circle

• Late Neolithic Age and the early Bronze Age

Drombeg stone circle

• More than 1000

The Stonehenge

• Most famous stone circle

• Wiltshire, England

• Added to UNESCO's list of World Heritage Sites in 1986

• Owned bij the crown and managed by English Heritage

Wiltshire

The building of the Stonehenge

• At least 1500 years

• Evidence of activities before and after the building of the Stonehenge

Stonehenge plan

Before the monument

• 8000 BC

• 4 or 5 postholes have been found, beneath the nearby tourist car park

The Stonehenge car park

The first Stonehenge

• Around 3100 BC

• Consisted of a bank, a ditch and the Aubrey holes

• Because of the erosion, you see the bank and ditch less clear these days

John Aubrey

The bank, ditch and Aubrey holes

Avebury

• Monument of 3 stone circles

• Around Avebury in Wilthire

• Contains the largest stone circle in Europe

The second Stonehenge

• Around 3000 BC

• Evidence of this phase is not longer visible

• There were found some postholes

Stonehenge 3, part I

• Around 2600 BC

• Q and R hold held up to 80 bluestones

• The heavy bluestones came from far away

• The Nort-Easthern entrance was widened

• Heel stone may have been erected

• The Avenue was added

The Heel stone

Stonehenge 3, part II

• 2600-2400 BC

• 30 Sarsen stones were brought to the Stonehenge

• There were placed 5 trilithons, creating a horseshoe-shaped setting

Trilithon

Stonehenge 3, part III

• 2400-2280 BC

• The bluestones appear to have been re-erected

Bluestone

Stonehenge 3, part IV

• 2280-1930 BC

• Some of the blue stones were arranged in an oval

• The Altar Stone may have been moved and re-erected

The Altar Stone

Transport of the Stones

• Very strong ropes

• Round tree trunks

• Glaciers

Round tree Trunks

Stonehenge 3, part V

• 1930-1600 BC

• Some bluestones in the oval were removed, creating the "Bluestone Horseshoe"

Bluestones

Who built the Stonehenge?

Merlin?

• Merlin or Aliens?

Archaeologists think:

A giant helps Merlin to build the Stonehenge

• The Windmill Hill people built the first part

• The Beaker people built the second part

• The Wessex people built the third part

Why?

Windmill Hill people

• They found objects, which belonged to those people

Airstrip for aliens

• Was the Stonehenge an Airstrip for Aliens?

• I don't believe in aliens

After the monument

• Last construction was built around 1600 BC

• Last usage was in the Iron Age

Last construction: Y and Z holes

Why was the Stonehenge built?

• Nobody knows for sure

• A lot of theories

Calendar

• You can experience the summer solstice and winter solstice

• You can predict solar and lunar eclipses

Winter solstice

Graveyard for elite families

• Archaeologists have found bodies

• Buried with high-status objects

Buried boy with an amber necklace

Druid temple

• Druids built it to worship their gods

Druid temple

Place for healing

• Bluestones famous of its healing purposes

• People could have broken off pieces of the bluestones to heal themselves

• Found bodies were injured and a lot of them didn't came from the area

Blue stone