It marks the solstices and equinoxes, and was also used as a burial ground.
Stonehenge
“How could the town allow such a massacre to take place at a time when all Breton elected officials are mobilising to have them listed as a World Heritage Site?”
"It's a surprise, it's a rare opportunity to be able to access it"
Larger than Stonehenge
The breakthrough came when a piece of core was returned to English Heritage from the US which gave archaeologists the chance to analyze it
The prehistoric site features 20 or more massive shafts in a circle around the Durrington Walls henge
Stonehenge, located near Amesbury, Wilts., is estimated to have been built around 3.000 BC
The thief swiped the bluestone last week from the Preseli Hills in Pembrokeshire, Wales, where some of the stone used for the Wiltshire monument was quarried and transported
The day marks the ancient middle of summer
Stonehenge was...donated to the nation in 1918 by owners Cecil & Mary Chubb