Stonehenge powerpoint
· the largest stone weights as much as 50 tons
· no wheels and no metals
· their tools - stones, bones and wood
· built in several stages
· 200 years later 80 blocks of bluestone were transported from Prescelly
Mountains (Wales) by rafts
· it was around 2200 BC that it took on its unique appearance
The sequence of building at Stonehenge
reconstruction drawings
c.3100BC c.2300BC
c.2500BC c.1500BC
The Function of Stonehenge
· nobody knows exactly what it was
· a tribal gathering place or religious centre, kind of a temple
worship gods
· burial ground, perhaps for royalty
· observatory - connected with astronomical observations,
the Sun and the Moon
· the direction of sunrise on the longest day of the year
· 21st June -the summer solstice
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