The great and ancient stone circle of Stonehenge is one of the wonders of the world. It is located near Amesbury in the English county of Wiltshire, (13 km) north of Salisbury, UK. What visitors see today are the subsrantid.remnants of
the last in a sequence of such monuments erected between 3000BC and 1600BC. Each monument was a circular structure, aligned with the rising of the sun of the hottest day of midsummer.
Nobody knows exactly what Stonehenge was built for. However, it was obvious that Stonehenge was filled with ancient ceremonial structures. A huge effort and great organisation was needed to carry the stones tens, and sometimes hundreds miles by land and water and then to shape and raise them. Only a sophisticated society could have gathering so large a workforce and the design and construction skills necessary to produce
Stonehenge and its surrounding monuments. Woodhenge, two miles to the north east, was a wooden oval-post structure, also aligned with the rising of the sun of the hottest day of midsummer. It is believed to be contemporary with the first phase of Stonehenge. Now Stonehenge and all its surroundings remain powerful witnesses to the once great civilisations of the Stone and Bronze Ages, between 5,000 and 3,000 years ago. What visitors see today of Stonehenge are the remnants of the last in a sequence of monuments erected between C. 3000BC and 1600BC. It is now a World heritage