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Mystery surrounds this 5,000 year old monument in the centre of the World Heritage Site. Visit this prehistoric South West site and decide for yourself whether Stonehenge was a place of sun worship, a healing sanctuary, a sacred burial site, or something different altogether!

 An awe-inspiring family visit, Stonehenge is a powerful reminder of the once-great peoples of the late Stone and Bronze Ages. Erected between 3,000 BC and 1,600 BC, a number of the stones were carried hundreds of miles over land and sea, while antlers and bones were used to dig the pits that hold the stones. Modern techniques in archaeology, and the series of recent digs, have helped to shape new theories about the stones, but their ultimate purpose remains a fascinating and enduring mystery.


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Updated Last: Monday, July 13, 2009 6:28 AM

English Heritage

Click here to edit this article
English Heritage

 www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/nav.16465

Mystery surrounds this 5,000 year old monument in the centre of the World Heritage Site. Visit this prehistoric South West site and decide for yourself whether Stonehenge was a place of sun worship, a healing sanctuary, a sacred burial site, or something different altogether!

 An awe-inspiring family visit, Stonehenge is a powerful reminder of the once-great peoples of the late Stone and Bronze Ages. Erected between 3,000 BC and 1,600 BC, a number of the stones were carried hundreds of miles over land and sea, while antlers and bones were used to dig the pits that hold the stones. Modern techniques in archaeology, and the series of recent digs, have helped to shape new theories about the stones, but their ultimate purpose remains a fascinating and enduring mystery.


K021102 east
K040314 aerial 2
K030970 inside circle
stonehenge-English Heritage
stonehenge_06
sw_stonehenge_08
sw_stonehenge_04
EH055_Gary_Newman
sw_stonehenge_11
sw_stonehenge_14
sw_stonehenge_17
sw_stonehenge_03
K050081
sw_stonehenge_09
sw_stonehenge_01
sw_stonehenge_12
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