I need to know a lot about the Stonehenge for a report?

Answer 1

Stonehenge is a Neolithic and Bronze Age megalithic monument located near Amesbury in the English county of Wiltshire, about 8 miles (13 km) north of Salisbury. It is composed of earthworks surrounding a circular setting of large standing stones and is one of the most famous prehistoric sites in the world. Archaeologists think that the standing stones were erected around 3200 BC and the surrounding circular earth bank and ditch, which constitute the earliest phase of the monument, have been dated to about 3100 BC. The site and its surroundings were added to the UNESCO's list of World Heritage Sites in 1986 in a co-listing with Avebury henge monument, and it is also a legally protected Scheduled Ancient Monument. Stonehenge itself is owned and managed by English Heritage while the surrounding land is owned by the National Trust.

Christopher Chippindale's Stonehenge Complete gives the derivation of Stonehenge as coming from the Old English words "stān" meaning "stone", and either "hencg" meaning "hinge" (because the stone lintels hinge on the upright stones) or "hen(c)en" meaning "gallows" or "instrument of torture". Stonehenge is a "henge monument" meaning that it consists of menhirs (large rocks) in a circular formation. Medieval gallows consisted of two uprights with a lintel joining them, resembling Stonehenge's trilithons, rather than looking like the inverted L-shape more familiar today.

The "henge" portion has given its name to a class of monuments known as henges. Archaeologists define henges as earthworks consisting of a circular banked enclosure with an internal ditch. As often happens in archaeological terminology, this is a holdover from antiquarian usage, and Stonehenge cannot in fact be truly classified as a henge site as its bank is inside its ditch. Despite being contemporary with true Neolithic henges and stone circles, Stonehenge is in many ways atypical. For example, its extant trilithons make it unique. Stonehenge is only distantly related to the other stones circles in the British Isles, such as the Ring of Brodgar.

Answer 2

why ask us? you have a computer in front of you. You have access to more information than God yet people like you want others to look it up for you. when I was in school we had to (Brace yourself) actually physically pick up an encyclopedia and find the answers ourselves.I didnt have the internet. Good God if I had the internet back then i would have goten an academic scholarship to any university.

Answer 3

You want someone on here to do your homework? If you need to know alot, then go online and research it you lazy bum.......don't expect people here to do your home work.

Answer 4

just google it seriously though you would of allready been a lot further than now. i prefer yahoo but it seems google is the peoples preference.

Answer 5

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonehenge
http://www.britannia.com/history/h7.html
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/nav.876
http://www.stonehenge.co.uk/

Okay there should be enough there for several reports,
remember to declare your sources or you could loose marks
good luck

Answer 6

so get your @ss to a library and start doing your homework

Answer 7

http://www.britannia.com/history/h7.html

http://www.britannia.com/travel/magical/magic12.html