Stonehenge is the ultimate symbol of prehistoric achievement and one of the world’s most famous monuments. Located on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, it is one of the past’s most enduring mysteries, with historians and archaeologists puzzling over the purpose of the stones for centuries.
While there is strong archaeological evidence that Stonehenge was used as a burial ground, most modern scholars believe it also served either as a ceremonial site, a religious pilgrimage destination, a final resting place for royalty, or a memorial erected to honour and perhaps spiritually connect with distant ancestors.
Built in the late Neolithic period, around 2500 BC, the origin and construction of the circular henge are equally perplexing. The larger sarsen sandstone slabs of its outer ring are topped by connected horizontal lintel stones and are likely to have come from the nearby Marlborough Downs. The smaller bluestones of the inner ring have
