Stonehenge

Stonehenge is a world-famous prehistoric monument. It was built in several stages.  The first monument is the original Hen monument, built about 5,000 years ago, and the unique stone circle was built around 2500 BC in the late Neolithic.  Many tombs were built nearby during the early Bronze Age. Today, Stonehenge with Awybury forms the heart of a World Heritage Site.  It features unique prehistoric monuments. There are four or five of the oldest construction pits found in the immediate area, three of which appear to have held large pine ‘totem-pole-like posts built between 8500 and 7000 BC in the Mesolithic period.  No one knows how these posts would later relate to the Stonehenge monument. By this time much of southern England was covered with forests, and the limestone ground in the Stonehenge area had become an unusually open landscape.  This may be the reason why it became the site of an early stone monument complex.
The complex includes the Robin Hoods Ball Causal Covers, two Cursus monuments, or a rectangular five-story work (Greeter, or Stonehenge and Less Curses) and BC.  It includes several long boroughs dating back to the 3500s.  The presence of these monuments may have influenced the later location of Stonehenge.
The heel rock and the low mound known as North Barrow may have been the original features of Stonehenge, but the first known major event was the formation of a circular pit on the inner and outer banks.  This dates back to BC.  About 3000 have been done.  It covered an area of 100 m in diameter and had two entrances.  It is an original form of Heng’s monument.
The banks and trenches sometimes contained wooden structures, and inside the bank were 56 pits known as Aubrey holes.  There is a lot of debate about what is in these holes.  The consensus for many years was that they would hold wooden posts.  But recently there was a re-emergence that some of them had been stoned.
People buried the cremation in and around the Aubrey holes as well as in the pit.  About 64 cremations have been found so far, and it is believed that about 150 people were originally buried in Stonehenge.  It became the largest Neolithic cemetery in the British Isles. BC  Around 2500, stones were placed in the center of the monument.  Two types of stone are used in Stonehenge.  That is large ornaments and small ‘bluestones’.  The decorations were fitted with two concentric settings.  As an inner chariot and an outer circle.  The blue stones are formed in a double arc between them.
Perhaps at the same time that the stones in the center of the monument have been erected, they are adorned close to the entrance with the four-station stones in the terminal. About 200 or 300 years later, the central blue stone formed a circle and an inner ellipse.  (Later it was modified to make a horse carcass again).  A dirt road connecting the Stonehenge Avon River was also constructed at this time.
One of the prehistoric excavations at Stonehenge was the excavation of two central pits, known as radiocarbon, E, and E holes, defined by inches between 1800 and 1500 BC.  They may have been intended to reclaim unfinished stone.
Stonehenge’s stone carvings were constructed at a time of great change in prehistoric times, as new forms of Beaker pottery and metalworking knowledge arrived on the continent, with a transition from burial to burial.
In the early Bronze Age, a concentration of the largest circular boroughs in Britain was built around Stonehenge.  Many borough groups seem to be deliberately located on the tops of the mountains visible from Stonehenge.  That is the particularly rich tombs of King Borough Ridge and Normanton Down Cemetery. Hundreds of the four sarees in Stonehenge were decorated with carvings, depicting ax heads and several swords.  They appear to be Areton Down bronze axes dating to around 1750-1500 BC.  Perhaps this ax was a symbol of power or status in early Bronze Age society.  Or it may be connected to the tombs of nearby boroughs.
From 1897, when the Ministry of Defense purchased large tracts of land in the Salisbury Plains for military training exercises, the military activities affected the area.  Barracks, shooting ranges, field hospitals, airports, and light railways were established.  Some of these, such as Stonehenge Airport during World War I, were destroyed a long time ago, but some, such as Larkhill Airport, still exist and are important in early war aviation history.
Meanwhile, the introduction of diversions and railroads to Salisbury brought many more visitors to Stonehenge.  Although various stones were attached to the poles from the woods from the 1880s, in the 1900s an outdoor saree was concerned about the safety of visitors from the top and its lintel fall.  Sir Edmund Antrobus, then owner, organized the restoration of the tallest trillion in 1901 with the help of the Ancient Society.
This is the beginning of a series of businesses for the conservation and restoration of Stonehenge.  It was the last stone to be incorporated in 1964.
Cecil Chubb, a local who bought Stonehenge from the Antrobus family at auction three years ago, kept the monument in private ownership until 1918 when he gave it to the nation.  Since then, the task of conserving the monument has been entrusted to the government, and today it is a role played by the English heritage.
From 1927, the National Trust began to take over lands around Stonehenge, conserving them and turning them into grasslands.  Large areas of the Stonehenge landscape are now owned by them.  Recent improvements to the landscape, including the removal of old guest facilities and the closure of the old A344 section near the rocks, have begun the process of giving Stonehenge an open grassy backdrop.  But much more can be done.  The government plans to remove the busy A303 and invest in a tunnel that will help connect the monument with its ancient landscape.