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Stones Forum >> Stonehenge--dimensions (the measury kind, not the others!)
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Stonehenge--dimensions (the measury kind, not the others!) |
Aluta
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|  Posted 05-11-2009 at 23:31
Hi, Someone asked me for the dimensions and proportions of the stones, the circle and horseshoe, and the ditch and bank at Stonehenge, and I'm not sure where to find all that. Can anyone help?
Thank you!
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James
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| Posted 06-11-2009 at 17:24
Greetings!
Not sure where I put my file on that, but in the meantime, I found this
Stonehenge is a composite structure built during three distinct periods. In Period I (radiocarbon-dated to 3100 BC), Stonehenge was a circular ditch with an internal bank.
The circle, 320 feet in diameter, had a single entrance, 56 mysterious holes around its perimeter, with remains in them of human cremations, and a wooden sanctuary in the middle.
The circle was aligned with the midsummer sunrise, the midwinter sunset, and the most southerly rising and northerly setting of the moon.
Period II (2150 BC) saw the replacement of the wooden sanctuary with two circles of ‘bluestones’ (dolerite stone with a bluish tint), the widening of the entrance, the construction of an entrance avenue marked by parallel ditches aligned to the midsummer sunrise, and the erection, outside the circle, of the thirty-five ton ‘Heel Stone’.
The eighty bluestones, some weighing as much as four tons, were transported from the Prescelly Mountains in Wales, 240 miles away.
During Period III (2075 BC), the bluestones were taken down and the enormous Sarsen stones - which still stand today - were erected. These stones, averaging eighteen feet in height and weighing twenty-five tons, were transported from near the Avebury stone rings twenty miles to the north.
Sometime between 1500 and 1100 BC, approximately sixty of the bluestones were reset in a circle immediately inside the Sarsen circle, and another nineteen were placed in a horseshoe pattern, also inside the circle.
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cerrig
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| Posted 06-11-2009 at 17:38
wikipedia has all sorts on it concerning stonehenge
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Aluta
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| Posted 06-11-2009 at 22:51
Thanks. You're right--the Stonehenge 3 section of the Stonehenge page has good information. I'll send him the link.
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Runemage
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| Posted 07-11-2009 at 11:01
He may also be interested in this, Aluta,
http://www.eternalidol.com/?p=5187
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