1. By Morgan Sondgeroth Brooklynne Thielen

2. Stonehenge was built in the English county of Wiltshire on the Salisbury Plain approximately 5,000 years ago or around 1500 BC

3. Stonehenge was built on a mound with 56 holes forming a ring around the perimeter, small packing stones were placed at the base

4. It is believed that the ditch was built with tools made of red deer antlers and wood

5. 2000 B.C. – The first stone circle (inner) was made with small blue stones but was abandoned before it was completed

6. Many believe that the blue stones are from the Prescelly Mountains on the southwest tip of Wales

7. Stones were believed to be dragged from inland mountains, then along the southern coast of Wales and then up the rivers Awn and Frome, then down the River Wylye

8. About 80 stones in all were used to make Stonehenge. Each small stone individually weighs about 4 tons the giant stones (sarsen stones) weigh about 50 tons each

9. Studies show that 600 men would have been needed to get each stone passed obstacles along the way

10. Levers would lower stones into the hole and the stones stood at about 30° angles from the ground until men pulled ropes around the stone to put it in proper, upright position

11. The stones are aligned almost perfectly with the sunrise on the summer solstice

12. No one knows who actually built Stonehenge, but the best guess is the people of the Neolithic Period (3000 BC)

13. One Legend: Merlin brought stones to Salisbury Plain from Ireland and was built, maybe, as a memorial

14. Stones were believed (by Geoffrey of Monmwa) that Giants brought the stones from Africa to Ireland and them shipped back to britain

15. Prehistorians attributed Stonehenge to Egyptian, Mediterranean and Greek cultures during the 19 th century

16. It is also believed that Stonehenge was used for performing rituals, worship and healings

17. Another legend is that the stones were stones from an Irish woman by the Devil and rebuilt on the Salisbury Plain for the king

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