Stonehenge is one of the most famous monuments in the world. There are exactly one hundred sixty-two stones in Stonehenge and it is thirty-five paces across. These stones consist of sandstone and blue stone. Scientist named the outer rings of stones the Sarsen Circles. In the inside of that circle is another circle of blue stones and then a Sarsen horseshoe which consists of blue stones. Stonehenge is on the top of a slope of Salisbury Plain. Stonehenge sits at three hundred thirty feet above sea level and on a clear day the visibility is up to two miles in every direction. Today, Stonehenge is a shadow of the mighty puzzle that stood thirty five hundred years ago. Due to human destruction and weather, only half of the stones stand today.
Stonehenge was built
approximately in three thousand BC, and was built in three different phases.
Each phase took many centuries to build. The Windmill Hill culture
built phase one, The Beaker peoples built phase two, and The Wessex Peoples
built phase three.
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