If we cannot say with certainty this qu' it was for, one can say qu' it n' was not built at ends occasional. Only something of very important for the old ones would have been worth the sorrow and the investments qu' it was necessary to build Stonehenge. The stones which we see aujourd' today represent Stonehenge in ruin. Many stones d' origin fell or were withdrawn by the former generations for the construction of the house or the repair of the roads. It ya have the serious damage with some of smallest Bluestones resulting from the contact of the visitors closed (prohibited since 1978) and prehistoric engravings on the large stones sarsen to show signs d' important wear. The construction of Henge With l' time, the construction of Stonehenge was a technological prowess impressing, requiring l' engagement, of time and d' enormous quantities of manual work. In its first phase, Stonehenge was a great work out of ground, a bank and d' arrangement ditch called Henge, built it ya approximately 5.000 years. It is believed that the ditch was dug with l' d' helps; tools manufactured starting from the foliage of the stag and, possibly, wood. The chalk subjacent was softened with the pickaxe and the shovel with the scapulas of bovines. It was then charged in baskets and carried. The modern experiments showed that these tools were more qu' equal to the great task to dig the ground and moving. Bluestones Approximately 2.000 before JC, the circle of the first stone (which is now the interior circle), composed of Bluestones small, were set up, but gave up before its completion. The stones used in this first circle are regarded as Prescelly mountains, located approximately 240 miles from there, with the south-western point of Wales. Bluestones to weigh jusqu' with 4 tons each one and approximately 80 stones were used, in all. Taking into account the distance qu' they have in Voyage, that presented very an other problem of transport.

Modern theories to speculate that the stones were trailed by a roller and the sledge starting from l' back-country of the mountains towards the higher course of Milford Haven. There, they were embarked on rafts, barges or boats and veils along the southern part of Wales, then Avon Rivers and Frome jusqu' at a point located close to l' current Frome in Somerset. From this point, thus goes the theory, the stones were transported by terrestrial way, again, at a place close to Warminster, in Wiltshire, with approximately 6 miles. From there, it is of return in the swimming pool for slow to descend the Wylye river in Salisbury, then jusqu' with l' Avon Salisbury in West Amesbury, leaving only one short brake 2 mile of West Amesbury on the site of Stonehenge. The construction of l' Outer Ring The giant stones sarsen (which form the external circle), weighs jusqu' with 50 tons each one. To transport them starting from Marlborough Downs, approximately 20 miles in north, is a problem d' a width even larger than that to move Bluestones. The majority of the courses, the course are relatively easy, but with the stiffest part of l' route, at Rubicorne Hill, the modern studies of work estimate qu' at least 600 men would have been necessary just to obtain each stone last this obstacle. Once on the spot, a stone sarsen was laid out to satisfy lintels hones some along its upper surface. He was then trailed jusqu' at the end was on l' opening of the hole. Large levers were inserted under the stone and it was raised jusqu' so that gravity makes slip into the hole. At this stage, the stone was on an angle d' approximately 30 ° compared to the ground. Cords were attached to the top and of the d' teams; men drawn from l' another side to raise it in complete driving position. It was guaranteed by the filling of the hole at its base with small stones d' round packing. At this stage, the lintels were lowered places from there and vertically subjugated by mortice and tenon joints and horizontally by groove and strip. Stonehenge is probably definitively finished towards 1500 before JC. Who built Stonehenge? The question of which built Stonehenge is mainly without answer, even aujourd' today. The construction of the monument was allotted to many the ancients through the years, but l' attribution most captivating and durable was druids. This erroneous connection was made around 3 it ya of the centuries by l' antique dealer, John Aubrey. Jules César and d' other Roman writers said d' a Celtic priesthood which lived with l' time of their first conquest (55 before JC). At that time, however, the stones had been held for 2000 years and were perhaps already in a state of ruin. D' elsewhere, the druids adored in the temples of the forests and n' need for structures of stone did not have. The best assumption seems to be than the site of Stonehenge was started with the people of the end of the Neolithic era (approximately 3000 before JC) and carry by d' people; a new economy which s' raised at that time. These " nouveaux" men, called Beaker Folk because of their use of the drink ceramics vases, started to use the metal in work and of living in a mode Community than their ancestors. Some think qu' they May were immigrants come from the continent, but this assertion n' is not supported by archaeological evidence. It is probable that people they were autochtones making the same old women things in a new way. As Legend Has It The Legend off King Arthur offers another history of the construction of Stonehenge. She is told by l' writer of XIIe century, Geoffroy de Monmouth, in his History of the kings of Great Britain that Merlin introduces the stones for the plain of Salisbury d' Ireland. In the current of Ve century, there had been a massacre of 300 British gentlemen by the perfidious leader Saxon, Hengest. Geoffrey says to us that the high-king, Aurelius Ambrosius, wanted to create a memorial appropriate to the killed men.