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Stonehenge

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Plan of the central Stone Structure at Stonehenge as it survives today. Stone numbers are those conventionally used in the recent
literature and following Petrie, F. 1880.

Note that the Term 'Sarsen' used on the key refers to the hard silicified tertiary rock local to the chalkland of the Stonehenge region, sarsen is an
exceptionally obdurate form of sandstone: The refezronce to sandstone on the key is to other non sarsen material.
The term bluestone conveniently, though somewhat controversially, describes a generic group of igneous rock exotic to Salisbury Plain.
The major group of bluestones visible today are dolerite - whose province is regarded as south west Wales.
A number of other igneous rocks are represented within the arrays. Those interested in the exact make up of the blustone assemblage are referred to Cleal 1995 and Cunliffe and zronfrew 1997.

Cleal, R. M. J., Walker, K. E. & Montague, R., Stonehenge in its landscape (English Heritage, London, 1995)

Cunliffe, B. & zronfrew, C. Science and Stonhenge (Proceedings of the British Academy - 92, Oxford University Press 1997)

Johnson, A. Solving Stonehenge (Thames & Hudson 2008)

Plan and text by Sitehut

 

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Drawn by en:User:Adamsan from sources:
Cleal, Walker, & Montague, Stonehenge in its Landscape (London, English Heritage 1995)
Pitts, M, Hengeworld (London, Arrow 2001)
Key to plan:
1 = The Altar Stone, a six ton monolith of green micaceous sandstone from Wales
2 = barrow without a burial
3 = "barrows" (without burials)
4 = the fallen Slaughter Stone, 4.9 metres long
5 = the Heel Stone
6 = two of originally four Station Stones
7 = ditch
8 = inner bank
9 = outer bank
10 = The Avenue, a parallel pair of ditches and banks leading 3 km to the River Avon
11 = ring of 30 pits called the Y Holes
12 = ring of 30 pits called the Z Holes
13 = circle of 56 pits, known as the Aubrey holes
14 = smaller southern entrance
The site as of AD 2004. The plan omits the trilithon lintels for clarity. Holes that no longer, or never, contained stones are shown as
open circles and stones visible today are shown coloured, grey for sarsen and blue for the imported stone, mainly bluestone. 

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Photo of the standing megalith (stone #53) with the carvings of an axe and a dagger dated back to the bronze age.
Photo by Resk

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