MYSTERY STONES
STONEHENGE in Wiltshire, England, is the ruins of several enormous man-made stone circles. The site has captured human imagination for centuries. The name is Old English for “stones supported in the air”. Stonehenge was declared a Unesco World Heritage Site in 1986.
THE STONEHENGE BLUEPRINT
OUTER CIRCLE
This consisted of 30 upright sarsens (boulders of silicified sandstone), with other boulders balanced horizontally on top. The boulders were up to tall (five adult humans) and weighed up to(four adult elephants) each. Some of the horizontal boulders have toppled and some of the upright boulders are missing.
