* Hall, R, Leather, K, & Dobson, G, Stonehenge Aotearoa ( Awa Press, 2005 )

Entrance to Stonehenge Aotearoa

Detail of the Stonehenge Aotearoa exterior

Since Stonehenge Aotearoa is at a different latitude and longitude than the original Stonehenge, it is not an exact replica — some measurements had to be changed to preserve certain astronomical properties.

Stonehenge Aotearoa also differs from its Salisbury cousin in construction ; the pillars, lintels and central obelisk are not hewn stone, but are hollow structures with concrete molding forming their exterior.

* Stonehenge Aotearoa web site

* The video for " The Free Way " by Stefan Wolf was partly filmed at Stonehenge Aotearoa

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If this etymology is combined with the tradition reported by Geoffrey of Monmouth stating that Ambrosius Aurelianus ordered the building of Stonehenge – which is located within the parish of Amesbury ( and where Ambrosius was supposedly buried ) – and with the presence of an Iron Age hill fort also in that parish, then it may be tempting to connect Ambrosius with Amesbury.

In the 1960s the work of the engineer Alexander Thom and that of the astronomer Gerald Hawkins, who proposed that Stonehenge was a Neolithic computer, inspired new interest in the astronomical features of ancient sites.

In approximately 3500 BC, a Stonehenge Cursus was built north of the site as the first farmers began to clear the trees and develop the area.

Stonehenge Avenue, ( 10 ), a parallel pair of ditches and banks leading to the River Avon, was also added.

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.

Although this would seem the most impressive phase of work, Stonehenge 3 IV was rather shabbily built compared to its immediate predecessors, as the newly re-installed bluestones were not well-founded and began to fall over.

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.

A decapitated 7th century Saxon man was excavated from Stonehenge in 1923.

Stonehenge was produced by a culture that left no written records.

Professor Geoffrey Wainwright OBE, FSA, president of the Society of Antiquaries of London, and Professor Timothy Darvill, OBE of Bournemouth University have suggested that Stonehenge was a place of healing – the primeval equivalent of Lourdes.

On the other hand, Professor Mike Parker Pearson of Sheffield University has suggested that Stonehenge was part of a ritual landscape and was joined to Durrington Walls by their corresponding avenues and the River Avon.

He suggests that the area around Durrington Walls Henge was a place of the living, whilst Stonehenge was a domain of the dead.

A journey along the Avon to reach Stonehenge was part of a ritual passage from life to death, to celebrate past ancestors and the recently deceased.

It should be pointed out that both explanations were mooted in the 12th century by Geoffrey of Monmouth ( below ), who extolled the curative properties of the stones and was also the first to advance the idea that Stonehenge was constructed as a funerary monument.

Then Merlin, using " gear " and skill, easily dismantled the stones and sent them over to Britain, where Stonehenge was dedicated.

In the late 1920s a nation-wide appeal was launched to save Stonehenge from the encroachment of the modern buildings that had begun to appear around it.

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.

Between 1972 and 1984, Stonehenge was the site of a Stonehenge Free Festival.

Monumental collective tombs were built to house the dead in the form of chambered cairns and long barrows, and towards the end of the period other kinds of monumental stone alignments begin to appear, such as Stonehenge, their cosmic alignments betraying a preoccupation with the sky and planets.

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.

* c. 2750 BC — 1500 BC — Stonehenge, Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England, is built.

* c. 1550 BC Stonehenge was built.

These megalithic burial chambers, or cromlechi, were built between 6000 and 5000 BP, during the early Neolithic period, the first of them about 1500 years before either Stonehenge or the Egyptian Great Pyramid of Giza was completed.

* The Neolithic monument Stonehenge is built in England near Salisbury, Wiltshire, comprising a circular earthwork 97. 5 m / 320 ft in diameter with 56 small pits around the circumference ( later known as the Aubrey holes ).

A replica of Stonehenge built by Samuel Hill as a monument to local men killed in World War I called Maryhill Stonehenge.

* Missouri University of Science and Technology has a half-scale Stonehenge replica built from solid granite located on campus, as well as an astronomical observatory and an operational nuclear reactor, which was the state's first.

* c. 3000 BC: Stonehenge begins to be built.

Several installations have been built and since removed, including a railway line and aerodrome that were constructed next to Stonehenge.

In addition, new enclosures called henges were built, along with stone rows and the famous sites of Stonehenge, Avebury and Silbury Hill, which building reached its peak at this time.

His approach led him to question what he sees as the over-romanticised view that Stonehenge was built from bluestones hauled by hand from the Preseli Hills in south west Wales to Salisbury Plain.

Stonehenge II was conceived by Al Shepperd and built with the help of his friend and neighbor, Doug Hill.

Instead of being built with large standing stones, as is the case with the original Stonehenge, Carhenge is formed from vintage American automobiles, all covered with gray spray paint.

He was a copious writer also on theology, natural history, and antiquities, and published Chorea Gigantum ( 1663 ) to prove that Stonehenge was built by the Danes.

Like Stonehenge, it had been built up by successive generations who would add new features to the circle.

A British writer on earth mysteries John Ivimy wrote a book in 1975 called The Sphinx and the megaliths in which he linked the Egyptian Sphinx to the British Stonehenge and other megaliths claiming they were all built by a group of " elite trained " people.

This song makes reference to the Stonehenge, a monument located near Amesbury in the English county of Wiltshire, which is believed to have mainly been built between 2500 BC and 2000 BC.

Structures built by layering themselves in this way such as Stonehenge, are also part of this " house of cards architecture ", which dates back to the Cyclopean and Megalithic ages.