Stonehenge is a prehistoric, mysterious circular setting of large standing stones. Stonehenge is located in the Wiltshire, about 3.2 kilometers west of Amesbury and 13 kilometers north of Salisbury in southern England. Archaeologists had believed that the native Neolithic people at bronze age began construction of Stonehenge about 5,000 years ago. The famous stones that still stand today. They used deer antlers as picks to dig the holes and shaped the stones with Sarsen hammer. Stonehenge was built in three phases that consisting of over 30 million hours of labor. The larger stones are 7 feet tall and weight 50 tons each, brought from about 20 miles away from the Marlborough Downs. The smaller stones, called Bluestones, were brought from the Preseli Mountains in South Wales, nearly 250 miles away. There are no written records as to why Stonehenge was built. There are many theories but no confirmations. Some theory it was a place of dying, while others theory it was aplace of healing. Some reason Stonehenge was built for human sacrifice while others speculate it's all about astronomy. Some think it is a solar calendar that predicted the sunrise, sunset, eclipse, moonsets and moonrise while others reckon it as a place for worship. The circle and its banks were like a part of a huge astronomical calendar. Some authors state the supernatural must have played a part in the construction of Stonehenge reasoning the stones were too heavy making impossible for anyone to move and carry therefore makingStonehenge a much bigger mystery. The reasoning for Stonehenge remains a mystery.
