Other signs of human metallurgy are found from the third millennium BC in places like Palmela ( Portugal ), Cortes de Navarra ( Spain ), and Stonehenge ( United Kingdom ).

; Other monuments in the Stonehenge ritual landscape

Other minor communities and geographic areas are: Aljen Heights, Barrett Park, Colonial Manor, Cranwood Homestead, Highlands, Lakeside, Lantern Hill, Long Pond, Parsonage Hill Manor, Presidential Estates, Quaker Town, and Stonehenge.

Other features of Salem's tourism history include Rockingham Park Race Track, the first horse race track in New England, and " America's Stonehenge ", a curiosity ( formerly " Mystery Hill ").

Other fortifications associated with Vortigern are at Arfon in Gwynedd, Bradford-on-Avon in Wiltshire, Carn Fadrun in Gwynedd, Clwyd in Powys, Llandysul in Dyfed, Old Carlisle in Cumberland, Old Sarum in Wiltshire, Rhaeadr Gwy in Powys, Snowdon, and Stonehenge in Wiltshire.

Other finds in the parish point to large scale prehistoric structures and settlements in the whole area, including the numerous monuments around Stonehenge, the discovery of a Neolithic village in the neighbouring parish of Durrington by the Stonehenge Riverside Project, and continuing excavations at Boscombe Down where Wessex Archaeology found the Amesbury Archer and Boscombe Bowmen.

* Stonehenge and Other British Stone Monuments Astronomically Considered ( 1906 ; second edition, 1909 )

Other attractions in Natural Bridge include Foamhenge, a foam replica of Stonehenge ; Dinosaur Kingdom, a statue park which depicts dinosaurs fighting the Union Army ; the Toy Museum at Natural Bridge, a toy museum with over 45, 000 toys ; and the Natural Bridge Wax Museum.

Stonehenge is therefore interpreted as functioning as an enclosed cremation cemetery at this time, the earliest known cremation cemetery in the British Isles.

* Cunliffe, B, & Renfrew, C, Science and Stonehenge ( The British Academy 92, Oxford University Press, 1997 )

* Godsell, Andrew " Stonehenge: Older Than the Centuries " in " Legends of British History " ( 2008 )

* Stonehenge, a Temple Restor'd to the British Druids By William Stukeley, at Sacred Texts.

* June 21 – British police arrest 250 people for celebrating the summer solstice at Stonehenge.

The Anglo-Saxons call the British nobles to a peace conference at Stonehenge but turn on them and massacre almost everyone ( approximate date ).

* 2005 Stonehenge II, a scaled replica of the famous British attraction, is featured in the book " Weird Texas.

In City of Revelation ( 1973 ) British author John Michell theorised that Whiteleaved Oak is the centre of a circular alignment he called the “ Circle of Perpetual Choirs ” and is equidistant from Glastonbury, Stonehenge, Goring-on-Thames and Llantwit Major.

The Archer was quickly dubbed the King of Stonehenge in the British press due to the proximity of the famous monument and some have even claimed he may have been involved in its construction.

In 2001, Warwick Castle was named one of Britain's " Top 10 historic houses and monuments " by the British Tourist Authority ; the list included Tower of London, Stonehenge, and Edinburgh Castle.

* Stonehenge, a Temple Restor'd to the British Druids, by William Stukeley

After surveying British prehistoric monuments in his teenage years ( commencing with the late Romano-British ' British Camp ' that lay within yards of his family home in Charlton ) in attempts to understand their geometry ( at 19 tackling Stonehenge ), Petrie travelled to Egypt early in 1880 to apply the same principles in a survey of the Great Pyramid at Giza, making him the first to properly investigate how they were constructed ( many theories had been advanced on this, and Petrie read them all, but none were based on first hand observation or logic ).

* Circa 2500 BC: Constructions in Brittany ( Le Menec, Kermario and elsewhere ), Italy ( Otranto ), Sardinia, and Scotland ( northeast ), plus the climax of the megalithic Bell-beaker culture in Iberia, Germany, and the British Isles ( stone circle at Stonehenge ).

The best known tradition of stone circle construction occurred across the British Isles and Brittany in the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age, with over 1000 examples still surviving to this day, including famous examples like Avebury, the Rollright Stones and Stonehenge.

His projects include the Peace Arch, a monument to 100 years of peace between the United States and Canada, on the border between Blaine, Washington and Surrey, British Columbia ; the Maryhill Museum of Art, a building originally conceived as a residence ; and Maryhill Stonehenge, a replica of Stonehenge in Maryhill, Washington, a memorial to fallen World War I soldiers from Klickitat County, Washington.

Meanwhile, the previous day, British and Indian forces had launched an attack on ' Stonehenge Ridge ', where an Afghan force of about 3, 000 men had established themselves with a number of artillery pieces and machine guns.

In fact, early Stonehenge may have been barely different from the other Neolithic timber circles of the British Isles which had varying numbers of postholes and orientations and could therefore not have been used for in island-wide eclipse predicting.

The centerpiece of the performance is a retelling of British history from Stonehenge through to the Reformation.

The Stonehenge Free Festival was a British free festival from 1972 to 1984 held at Stonehenge in England during the month of June, and culminating on the summer solstice on June 21.

Lieutenant-Colonel William Hawley ( 1851 – 1941 ) was a British archaeologist who most famously undertook pioneering excavations at Stonehenge.

Ancient, military and uninhabited structures, such as Stonehenge, are sometimes instead classified as Scheduled Ancient Monuments and protected by much older legislation whilst cultural landscapes such as parks and gardens are currently " listed " on a non-statutory basis.

Ancient, military and uninhabited structures ( such as Stonehenge ) are sometimes instead classified as Scheduled Ancient Monuments and protected by much older legislation whilst cultural landscapes such as parks and gardens are currently " listed " on a non-statutory basis.

* Stonehenge Today and Yesterday By Frank Stevens, at Project Gutenberg.

By 2500 BC areas around Durrington Walls and Stonehenge had become a focus for building, and the southern part of the plain continued to be settled into the Bronze Age.

By the 5th millennium BC, the peoples in Nabta Playa had fashioned the world's earliest known astronomical device, 1000 years older than, but comparable to, Stonehenge.

By the time the standing stones of Stonehenge 3 were erected ( around 2600 BC ), the holes had fallen out of use.

By the late 1980s, Laffoley began to move from the spiritual and the intellectual, and evolved to the view of his work as an interactive, physically engaging psychotronic device, perhaps similar to architectural monuments such as Stonehenge or the Cathedral of Notre Dame and their spiritual aura.

By the time Freddie arrives, Nelson's Column, Tower of London, Buckingham Palace, St. Pauls Cathedral, and Stonehenge are already missing.

The Monk liked to meddle in history and to change it for his own amusement and for what he considered to be the better: lending mechanical assistance to the builders of Stonehenge ; giving Leonardo da Vinci tips on aircraft design ; making money by using time travel to exploit compound interest ; and, when the Doctor first encountered him, attempting to prevent the Norman Conquest as part of a plan to guide England into an early age of technological prosperity.

* Stonehenge Kit the Ancient Brit ( 1939 – 50, drawn by Norman Ward )

A community of interest gathers at Stonehenge, England, for the summer solstice.

It has been suggested that megaliths found at Nabta Playa are examples of the world's first known archaeoastronomical devices, predating Stonehenge by some 1, 000 years.

Three female druids on the morning of the summer solstice at Stonehenge after sunrise.

The Ancient Order of Druids founded in 1781 had many aspects of freemasonry, and have practised rituals at Stonehenge since 1905.

Increasing academic interest in Paganism has been attributed to the new religious movement's increasing public visibility, as it began interacting with the interfaith movement and holding large public celebrations at sites like Stonehenge.

Such deposits continued at Stonehenge for at least another 500 years.

Despite being contemporary with true Neolithic henges and stone circles, Stonehenge is in many ways atypical – for example, at over tall, its extant trilithons supporting lintels held in place with mortise and tenon joints, make it unique.

Mike Parker Pearson, leader of the Stonehenge Riverside Project based at Durrington Walls, noted that Stonehenge appears to have been associated with burial from the earliest period of its existence:

Stonehenge evolved in several construction phases spanning at least 1, 500 years.

Stonehenge at sunset in 2004

The timber circle was orientated towards the rising sun on the midwinter solstice, opposing the solar alignments at Stonehenge, whilst the avenue was aligned with the setting sun on the summer solstice and led from the river to the timber circle.

The last known construction at Stonehenge was about 1600 BC ( see ' Y and Z Holes '), and the last usage of it was probably during the Iron Age.

When one stands within Stonehenge, facing north-east through the entrance towards the heel stone, one sees the sun rise above the stone at summer solstice.

The fifth-century king Aurelius Ambrosius wished to erect a memorial to 3, 000 nobles slain in battle against the Saxons and buried at Salisbury, and at Merlin's advice chose Stonehenge.

During World War I an aerodrome had been built on the downs just to the west of the circle and, in the dry valley at Stonehenge Bottom, a main road junction had been built, along with several cottages and a cafe.

The 1905 mass initiation ritual held by the Ancient Order of Druids at Stonehenge.

Throughout the twentieth century, Stonehenge began to be revived as a place of religious significance, this time by adherents of Neopagan and New Age beliefs, particularly the Neo-druids: the historian Ronald Hutton would later remark that " it was a great, and potentially uncomfortable, irony that modern Druids had arrived at Stonehenge just as archaeologists were evicting the ancient Druids from it.

In the survey of conditions at 94 leading World Heritage Sites, 400 conservation and tourism experts ranked Stonehenge 75th in the list of destinations, declaring it to be " in moderate trouble ".

They were able to date the erection of some bluestones to 2300 BC, although this may not reflect the earliest erection of stones at Stonehenge.

They also discovered organic material from 7000 BC, which, along with the Mesolithic postholes, adds support for the site having been in use at least 4, 000 years before Stonehenge was started.