Stonehenge is located on Salisbury plain in Wiltshire, England. It is not just one big structure, it’s made of a series of seven different kinds of stones. However, the majority of it is Sarcen, which is a hard sandstone. It is also made of Bluestone, which is similar to rocks found in the Welsh Preseli Mountains.
There are very many different kinds of people who have put thought into who built Stonehenge, some of those thoughts included druids, Greeks, Phoenicians and Atlantians. There are also many different theories on why it was built including for human sacrifice to astronomy.
The Stonehenge was a much respected piece of art during 2000 BC. In its day, the construction of Stonehenge was a really big deal, requiring commitment, time and huge amounts of hard labor.
In its first phase, Stonehenge was a large earthwork, a bank and ditch arrangement called a henge, was made about 5,000 years ago. It is believed that the ditch was dug with tools made from the antlers of red deer and, possibly wood.
It was then loaded into baskets and carried away. More recent experiments have shown that these tools were more than equal to the great task of earth digging and moving. Some people claim it was created by many different people over a long period of time. The actual building process of Stonehenge was very complicated.
Its origin is controversial. Believers say it was the creation of Merlin the magician, while some owe it to extraterrestrials. Stonehenge’s association with druids dates only from 1905, and has no historical basis, but there are claims that druids gathered near this monument to invoke the Gods and that it served for some magical purpose.