STONEHENGE [MEGALITHS STRUCTURE]

The megaliths of Stonehenge:

Sarsens of Stonehenge, the largest of which weighs over 40 tons and 24 meters increases were usually come from quarries 25 miles north of Salisbury Plain and transported with the help of slides and ropes; You may have even been distributed in the neighborhood, as the first Neolithic monument architects are breaking ground. The smaller blue stones, on the other hand, have been all the way to the Preseli mountains of Wales, about 200 miles due from Stonehenge. So how has prehistoric farmers without demanding engineering tools or in these rocks, which can weigh up to 4 tons, over such a long distance?

According to a theory for a long time, the builders of Stonehenge patterned rollers slide and tree trunks loaded with blue stones from the Preseli Hills. Boulders on rafts and floated first on the coast of Wales and then transfer the Avon River on Salisbury Plain; alternatively, they may each stone to be towed with a fleet of ships. Recent hypotheses need to transport the blue stones with supersized wicker baskets or a combination of ball bearings, long grooved boards and cattle.

Already in the 1970s, geologists were added their voices to the debate on how Stonehenge was built. Defying the classic image of the hard-working young Steinbauer slide, karting, bowling or transport the steep blue stones from distant Wales, some scientists have suggested that the glacier, no people, most of the hard work done. The world with huge rock like boulders, the known, dotted over long distances by ice floes were carried out. Perhaps Stonehenge mammoth plates are cut from the Preseli Hills by glaciers during the ice ages and within walking distance deposited, at least relatively, of Salisbury Plain. Most archaeologists cool glacial theory, however, was wondering how the forces of nature could possibly be the exact number of stones needed to be given to close the circle.

Who built Stonehenge?:

According to the writer of the 12th century, Geoffrey of Monmouth, the story of King Arthur and mythical history of English history is as far applies to the Middle Ages, Stonehenge is the work of Merlin. In the middle of the fifth century history, hundreds of British nobles were massacred by the Saxons and buried in Salisbury Plain. In the hope of building a monument to the fallen subjects, sent King Ambrosius aureoles an army to Ireland, known to recover a stone circle as a ring of giants who had built the old giants of magical African blue stones. The soldiers successfully defeated the Irish, but not to move the stones, so Merlin used his magic to the mind by the sea and makes it available to the mass grave. Legend has it that Ambrose and his brother Uther, the father of King Arthur are buried there.


Although many believed the story of Monmouth, the true story of the creation of Stonehenge to be for centuries, the monument earlier build Merlin-or at least the real numbers that tell him several thousand years, inspired. Other first hypothesis behind its construction the Saxons, Danes, Romans, Greeks and Egyptians. In the 17th century archaeologist John Aubrey made the claim that Stonehenge was the work of the most important Celtic priests, like the Druids, a theory was extensively excavated by the antiquarian William Stukeley, the primitive graves in the area is popularly known. Even today, people still gather at Stonehenge for the summer solstice who identify themselves as modern Druids. In the middle of the 20th century, radiocarbon dating showed, however, that Stonehenge granting more than 1,000 years before the Celts inhabited the area, removing the old Druids of the race.

Many modern historians and archaeologists agree that several different tribes of people contributed, Stonehenge, each a different phase of construction designation. The bone, tools and other items found at the site appear to support this hypothesis. In the first phase was achieved by the Neolithic agrarian were probably originally from the British Isles. Later, it is assumed groups with advanced tools and common forms of life have left their mark on the website. Some have suggested that they were immigrants from Europe, but many scientists believe that native Britons were descendants of the builders.