3. When this monument made?
The first Stonehenge was a large
earthwork probably built around
3100 BC
4. The second stage started around
2150 BC. About 82 bluestones
from the Preseli mountains in
south-west Wales were brought to
the site
5. Third stage started in
2000 BC. The Sarsen
stones that they used
were probably brought
from the Marlborough
Downs area near
Avebury, about 25 miles
north of Stonehenge.
6. After 1500 BC
the bluestones
were moved into
the horseshoe and
circle that we see
today.
7. How did build it ?
Our ancestors used weird tools to make it but no one
knows how they did it
Antler picks were used for digging; these have given some
dateable material. The lintels were probably put on by
constructing wooden platforms by which you'd lift the
stone a few feet at a time. The big sarsens were shaped
using stone mauls (which are still lying about the place,
not far under the surface). The stones must have been
tipped into their holes and I'd imagine there had to have
been some kind of twine or gut rope to help pull. They
probably arrived on some kind of wooden sledges to help
them slide along.
