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Stonehenge

Not who you're looking for? Others named Stonehenge: town in northwest Jamaica · novel by Bernard Cornwell · album Richie Havens, 1970 · 1835 painting by John Constable

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Overview

Stonehenge is a prehistoric megalithic structure on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, two miles (3 km) west of Amesbury. It consists of an outer ring of vertical sarsen standing stones, each around 13 feet (4.0 m) high, seven feet (2.1 m) wide, and weighing around 25 tons, topped by connecting horizontal lintel stones which are held in place with mortise and tenon joints—a feature unique among contemporary monuments. Inside is a ring of smaller bluestones. Inside these are free-standing trilithons: two bulkier vertical sarsens joined by a single lintel. The whole monument, now in ruins, is aligned towards the sunrise on the summer solstice and sunset on the winter solstice. The stones are set within earthworks in the middle of the densest complex of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments in England, including several hundred tumuli.

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Notable quotes

“Hello, Stonehenge! Who takes the Pandorica, takes the universe!”
— Eleventh incarnation of the Doctor, in "The Pandorica Opens" episode of the Doctor Who television series.
“I don't like the place at all. It's all wrong. An imposition on the Landscape. I reckon that Stonehenge was build by the contemporary equivalent of Microsoft, whereas Avebury was definitely an Apple circle.”
— Terry Pratchett, at alt.fan.pratchett (8 June 1997)

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Overview

Stonehenge is a prehistoric megalithic structure on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, two miles (3 km) west of Amesbury. It consists of an outer ring of vertical sarsen standing stones, each around 13 feet (4.0 m) high, seven feet (2.1 m) wide, and weighing around 25 tons, topped by connecting horizontal lintel stones which are held in place with mortise and tenon joints—a feature unique among contemporary monuments. Inside is a ring of smaller bluestones. Inside these are free-standing trilithons: two bulkier vertical sarsens joined by a single lintel. The whole monument, now in ruins, is aligned towards the sunrise on the summer solstice and sunset on the winter solstice. The stones are set within earthworks in the middle of the densest complex of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments in England, including several hundred tumuli.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Not who you're looking for? Others named Stonehenge: town in northwest Jamaica · novel by Bernard Cornwell · album Richie Havens, 1970 · 1835 painting by John Constable

Notable quotes

“Hello, Stonehenge! Who takes the Pandorica, takes the universe!”
— Eleventh incarnation of the Doctor, in "The Pandorica Opens" episode of the Doctor Who television series.
“I don't like the place at all. It's all wrong. An imposition on the Landscape. I reckon that Stonehenge was build by the contemporary equivalent of Microsoft, whereas Avebury was definitely an Apple circle.”
— Terry Pratchett, at alt.fan.pratchett (8 June 1997)

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.