Transcript Construction phase # 3 (2550 – 1600 BCE) The Sarsen stone

One of the greatest mysteries left
to us by the ancient world
Construction Phase #2: 80 blue stones
(c. 2900-2400 BC) quarried from 160 miles
away.
Materials:
• Stone
• Wood
• Antler to dig the ditches
• Rope made from reeds soaked in mud
for several weeks until their fibers
softened and separated.
Stonehenge facts
• Construction phase # 3 (2550 – 1600
B.C.E)
• The Sarsen stone uprights are 20 feet
above ground and are buried 4-8 ft
deep quarried from 19 miles away
• Each of its colossal uprights weighs 50
– 80,000 pounds.
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Stonehenge located in Wiltshire, England
Tools:
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Stone
Wood
Antler to dig the ditches
Rope made from reeds soaked
in mud for several weeks until
their fibers softened and
separated.
Construction Phase #1:
The first monument at
Stonehenge ( of around
3,000 BC) consisted of a
circular ditch and bank with
a ring of 56 wooden posts.
The diameter of the ring
was 330 feet.
Construction phase #I
(around 3,000 B.C.E.)
Construction Phase II:
80 ‘blue stones’, named because they
look blue when wet, were arranged
upright in a circle and used to rebuild
the wooden henge. These stones are
of a type from the Preseli Mountains
in South Wales, and the traditional
interpretation is that they were
quarried in Wales 240 miles away.
Construction Phase II (c. 2900-2400 BC)
Construction phase #III (2550 – 1600
B.C.E)
Construction Phase #3
After a period of abandonment, new
work began in the early Bronze age,
around 2300 BCE by the Wessex
Peoples. Sarsen stones were
quarried from the Marlborough
Downs 19 miles away and erected
as a new stone circle, each
connected to two others by lintels
forming a continuous ring,
Each of its colossal uprights weighs 50
– 80,000 lbs
-The uprights are 20 feet above ground and
are buried 4-8 ft deep; however, a few of
the uprights buried 4 ft into the ground
have fallen over.
Each upright has a horizontal bar
known as a lintel on top.
The.
The lintels were carved with a slight curve to add th
rounded shape.
One Theory is that
Stonehenge was
created as a burial
site for honoring
their ancestors.
Another is that Stonehenge is believed
to be a calendar or worship area of the
sun.
Every year the sun rises over the heel
stone during the summer soltice.
Check out this video if you are
interested in the making of
Stonehenge:
http://www.youtube.c
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