stonehenge

What is a “hub” of monuments referring to?

• An activity centre, perhaps a Neolithic pilgrimage centre

• The spectacle of the Sun disappearing amidst the ordered ensemble of giant stones at winter solstice

What is a sarsen stone made off?

• a chemically altered igneous rock containing spots or clusters of secondary minerals replacing plagioclasefeldspar

• the redstone quartzite

• igneous rocks

• sandstone blocks

The solar cycle is naturally marked by the two solstices,

and usually these two days, and in particular the winter solstice,

were associated by ancient cultures with concepts of renewal and

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Perhaps Stonehenge was a place devoted to the ancestors and to dead

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Stonehenge was not a high-precision astronomical instrument,

and even less a computer to predict eclipses, as claimed many times in the past.

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the menhir consistis of two standing stones supporting a huge lintel, normally used for burials.

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The Menhir Is one of the most simple example of architecture of megalithic people which refers to a single standing stone

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Stonehenge structure architecturally speaking consists of these main characteristics and materials:

• Iron , Gold , & Quartz

• Menhirs, Dolmens,Timbers

• Sarsen stone, & Bluestone

what Image corresponds to a Dolmen?

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The approach to Stonehenge occurred along the Avenue, an ancient road made out of a parallel pair of ditches

which comes from the nearby River Avon,

and the horseshoe appears as the final section of a symbolic path, or the procession to a temple.

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