question about stonehenge?

Question

im from america and i was watching tlc and they were talking about stonehenge but i only saw the ending so what is stonehenge and the legens and how was it built?

Answer 1

I'm in the UK.
I've visited and driven past the stones on numerous occasions.

What I know of them is this:
The current belief is they were used to monitor the movement of celestial bodies, due to the simple fact that using them like this, actually works! The use as a calender of sorts, comes by default, from their supposed purpose.

Stonehenge is estimated to have first been just three large Totems made of wood in a forest clearing. The positions of these are marked by round brass plates on the ground in the car park next to the stones. Throughout the ages more wooden structures were constructed in and around the area, replacing and adding to those that eventually rotted away. This is known from the evidence of the holes that remained, as apposed to finding the long since rotted away wooden poles.
The first stone to be used was when a large circle of small stones was made to replace the wood, probably to increase the longevity of the site due to it's importance.
Eventually, as differing groups and cultures arose in the area, more structures were added, including an inner circle of larger stones, a ditch inbetween the now two stone circles and a stone alter. Later still, much larger stones, the ones we see today that give Stonehenge it's characteristic appearance,were brought from a quarry in wales, specifically for this site of importance. These are the "Bluestones" that, for whatever reason, were so important to the builders of Stonehenge they undertook the mammoth task of transporting them from such a long distance. There are a couple of theories I have read about, to do with this, including speculation that the stones were actually deposited nearby by glaciers during the Ice Age, but the proof of this is slim, due to the glaciers having thought to never have moved in that direction and that there is no 'scratch marks' on any of the stones, consistent with such an event. The other idea(and the one I favour)concentrates on what these stones actually look like when polished - a stunningly beautiful, deep blue colour, with sparkling white and grey specks within. One could almost see polished bluestone as being chunks of the night sky itself - complete with stars! Perhaps this was their attraction, considering the supposed use for the site?
At one time, yet another circle consisting of smaller stones was made, but for whatever reason was removed years later.

What IS known beyond doubt, is that this site was one of the most important and sacred sites in the british Isles of Neolithic times and was regularly visited by travellers from all over the world from then, up to the present day.
The estimated time of initial construction, is around the 3rd millenium BCE(3117bce), shortly AFTER what is thought to have been a time of cataclysmic change, such as meteor strikes on the Earth causing widespread extinctions and upheavals of cultures and whole societies through polluted atmosphere, earthquakes and climate changes, not to mention starvation caused by debris clouds blocking out the Suns rays to Earth. Coincidentally, if one types in this date into a search engine(I used Google), one can find MANY sacred monuments and sites similar to Stonehenge, appearing all over the globe at this time in our history.

Whatever it's purpose was, today it is used primarily by the Druid clans and also on the Equinox's and Solstices for celebrations and festivities by pagans who amongst other things, come to see the Sun rise and set in such a place of magic and mystery.

Sorry I haven't added more in the way of dates, but this has all been from memory and I don't trust my brain to supply me much accuracy when it comes to numbers!

Hope this helped some.

Answer 2

Stonehenge is a spirtual site that is used by the druids toady to celebrate Summer solstice. The stones were dragged from Wales to their present place. The interesting thing is that the magnetic leylines from the site connect up with various churches etc accross the land. Some say the stones are a calendar, or an astrological map. There are stone circles in various places in the Uk especially in Cornwall where I live. Stonehenge looks spectacular as the stones are huge and the surrounding area is flat-plains. Visit you wont be disappointed.

Answer 3

Stonehenge is a permanent stone fixture, in neolithic times they beleived that there were many such monuments made out of wood or other structures that they guess were sort of like calandars or astronomy/astrology tools. The important point is on midsummer's day June 21 the summer solstice dawn rises at an exactly specific point on the henge, and the stones are thought to correspond to star patterns. It shows an ancient society that not only hauled rocks not native to the region many miles from where they were and erect them but their math and geometry skills to arrange them in such patterns, considering it was all done with hand tools.

Answer 4

In ancient times, hundreds of years before the
dawn of history.
There lived a strange race of people...the Druids.
No one knows who they were, or what they were doing...
but their legacy remains...
hewn into the living rock of Stonehenge...

Stonehenge, where the demons dwell
Where the banshees live and they do live well
Stonehenge
Where a man is a man and the children dance to
the pipes of pan
Stonehenge
Tis a magic place where the moon doth rise
With a dragon's face
Stonehenge
Where the virgins lie
And the prayer of devils fill the midnight sky
And you my love, won't you take my hand
We'll go back in time to that mystic land
Where the dew drops cry and the cats meow
I will take you there
I will show you how

hope this answers your question

Answer 5

Stonehenge... I can't be bothered to explain it cause itz 3 in the morning here, but I love to gloat. Been there 3 times and actually touched the stones and witnessed the summer solstice morning.

Answer 6

My daughter went to Europe and visited Stonehenge when she was in the 8th grade. I asked her what she thought of it, and she said "Just a bunch of rocks!" lol
Seriously though, I don't think anyone knows for sure. It is hard to imagine how, back in those times, they could manage to move rocks of that size into those formations!

Answer 7

It is believed that stonehenge is an astrology tool as well as a type of time piece. But nothing is certain.

Answer 8

Pagan ritual site is one of the theories. Apparently the stones used come from Wales. Which is about 100 miles away, that was some big whips used to move those babies

Answer 9

its a pretty mysterious place, which in turn makes it very popular. I know that they speculate that it could have been a cerimonial place, a extraterrestrial contact place, or a monument. No one really knows for sure. There are many websites and books about it.

Answer 10

Itis supposed tyo be a calender to tell when the shortest and the longest days were.Personally I think it was a cage for very fat animals.