Stonehenge

Stonehenge is a gigantic megalithic monument situated on Salisbury Plain, Mid-Wiltshire, England. The wrecks of Stonehenge comprise stones from three stages of building. These phases took location over a time span of approximately 1600 years from 3100 BC to 1500 BC. Stonehenge has been severely impaired by things as distinct as visitors to weather. Whead covering it is today is rather different from whead covering scientists propose it may have looked like when it was finished(Gilman, 764). Since Stonehenge was built long before recorded history it has brought forth large suspicion and curiosity. Who constructed Stonehenge and why was it built?

These two inquiries have been contended for hundreds of years since Stonehenge was rediscovered from a three thousand year rest after its abandonment. Numerous theories have was derived over who built Stonehenge encompassing the Druids and Merlin, and about what it was constructed for such as a calendar, an observatory and a ceremonial burial ground. My theory, however, is that Stonehenge was built by Early Britons for devout purposes.

Some of the theories about why Stonehenge was constructed are not sustained by considerable evidence. However, even ideas about Stonehenge that have been verified false, still flourish. The proposal that Stonehenge was built as a burial ground is clearly questionable. Although there are numerous burials round the location of Stonehenge, this is because Stonehenge begun as a burial site, but from stage two onwards its reason was changed. Similarly there is also no clues to support the theory that it was utilised for sacrificial purposes(Thurber, 107).

This is clear since the altar pebble on to which this theory is founded displays no finds of blood stains or marks from sacrificial knifes. The idea Stonehenge was constructed as a calendar or an observatory is exceedingly unlikely. The enormous effort required to construct this structure shows something much more important than a calendar. The bluestones were transported by ocean from the Presllie Mountains in Ireland to Salisbury simple, via the Bristol Avon. (Gilman, 764)asserted that 'Transporting the bluestones from Wales to Wessex would have been a pattern of Seafaring Suicide' and would not be undertaken for anything less then devout purposes.

There are three factors that issue to devout reason in the construction of Stonehenge is as follows. Firstly, Stonehenge took an unbelievable amount of time to build. Gerald Hawkins, calculated that the undertaking of construction Stonehenge would take almost 210, 000 man-hours of work, to move almost 80 bluestones, weighing about four tonnes over 216 miles. This allowance of time and effort, and manpower, could not be achieved with any thing less than a strong religious belief. Secondly, the setting of the heel stone and the avenue, and other components of Stonehenge line up with the rising of the sun throughout the summer solstice, pointing to sun worship. Thirdly, Alignments point to moonrise and moonset at various times during the moons 18.6 year cycle of movements, and using these alignments the builders of Stonehenge may have been able to predict solar and lunar eclipses ...