The hotly debated plan for the capital's Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial, a circle of huge tablets engraved with his speeches ( and promptly dubbed by one of its critics, `` Instant Stonehenge '' ), is another of Udall's headaches, since as supervisor of the National Parks Commission he will share in the responsibility for building it.

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.

The complex including Maeshowe, the Ring of Brodgar, the Standing Stones of Stenness, Skara Brae, as well as other tombs and standing stones represents a concentration of Neolithic sites that is rivalled in Britain only by the complexes associated with Stonehenge and Avebury.

One of the most famous sites in the world, Stonehenge is composed of a circular setting of large standing stones set within earthworks.

Stonehenge is owned by the Crown and managed by English Heritage, while the surrounding land is owned by the National Trust.

As often happens in archaeological terminology, this is a holdover from antiquarian usage, and Stonehenge is not truly a henge site as its bank is inside its ditch.

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.

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

There is little or no direct evidence for the construction techniques used by the Stonehenge builders.

This is the oldest known depiction of Stonehenge.

After the Battle of the Beanfield in 1985 this use of the site was stopped for several years, and currently ritual use of Stonehenge is carefully controlled.

The new discovery is part of the Stonehenge Hidden Landscape Project which began in the summer of 2010.

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

The stone is referred to in the comedy play by Derek Webb called Bringing Back the Bluestones in which a Welsh group decide to emulate the return of the Stone of Scone to Scotland by demanding the return of the Bluestones from Stonehenge to Pembrokeshire.

* 2000 BC: Stonehenge is believed to have been completed.

Stonehenge, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site is about 8 miles ( 13 km ) northwest of Salisbury and greatly aids the local economy.

The permanent Stonehenge exhibition gallery has interactive displays about Stonehenge and the archaeology of south Wiltshire, and its collections include the skeleton of the Amesbury Archer, which is on display.

* A recent reassessment of Stonehenge ( c. 2500 BC ) suggests that the monument was set out by prehistoric surveyors using peg and rope geometry.

It is most famous for the prehistoric monument of Stonehenge which is in its parish, and for the discovery of the Amesbury Archer — dubbed the King of Stonehenge in the press — in 2002.

The land around Amesbury has been settled since prehistoric times, evidenced by the monument of Stonehenge.

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.

William Stukeley FRS, FRCP, FSA ( 7 November 1687 – 3 March 1765 ) was an English antiquarian who pioneered the archaeological investigation of the prehistoric monuments of Stonehenge and Avebury, work for which he has been remembered as " probably ... the most important of the early forerunners of the discipline of archaeology ".

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 ).

Upon discovery in 1998, Seahenge, which received its name from the press, who named it after the more famous prehistoric structure Stonehenge in Wiltshire, was picked up by the local and national media, inducing a great deal of publicity around its excavation.

This isn't rare in the prehistoric world, as the bluestones from Stonehenge were brought to the site in Salisbury from the Preseli Mountains in Wales.

It has been designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument, as well as a World Heritage Site, in the latter capacity being seen as a part of the wider prehistoric landscape of Wiltshire known as Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites.

People of this period were also largely responsible for building many famous prehistoric sites such as the later phases of Stonehenge along with Seahenge.

In 2009, investigation of crop marks near Stonehenge revealed a variety of 6, 000 year old prehistoric subterranean structures.

Basing his ideas upon experimental archaeological investigations performed at Stonehenge, Lambrick suggested that the prehistoric workers who hauled the stones uphill would have made use of wooden sledges, which were perhaps made more efficient by the use of timber rollers beneath them, cutting down the manpower needed to drag the sledge.

This proposal brought further protests from the National Trust, English Heritage, UNESCO, CPRE, the Council for British Archaeology and local groups as the tunnel approach cutting would cut in two a prehistoric track way between Stonehenge and a nearby river.

The upper route, on the brow of the North Downs, is the ancient trackway ( note the archaeological finds at the top left ); the lower, almost in the valley, is the route surmised by the Ordnance Survey in the 19th centuryThe prehistoric trackway extended further than the present Way, providing a link from the narrowest part of the English Channel to the important religious complexes of Avebury and Stonehenge, in Wiltshire, where it is known as the Harroway.

One of the most obvious symbols of change in prehistoric society is Stonehenge.

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The Eosapiens seemed to have gathered stones and arranged them in a circular pattern around Leo, like prehistoric monuments such as Stonehenge.

This ambitious phase has been radiocarbon dated to between 2600 and 2400 BC, slightly earlier than the Stonehenge Archer, discovered in the outer ditch of the monument in 1978, and the two sets of burials, known as the Amesbury Archer and the Boscombe Bowmen, discovered to the west.

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.

Hengist erected the stone monument — Stonehenge — on the site to show his remorse for the deed.

* Completion of first phase of Stonehenge monument in England.

* The earliest phase of the Stonehenge monument ( a circular earth bank and ditch ) dates to c. 3100 BC.

On another occasion he played a joke on the assembled delegates at a Prehistoric Society conference by lecturing them on a theory that the Neolithic monument of Woodhenge had been constructed as an imitation of Stonehenge by a nouveau riche chieftain.

* 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.

The layout of the timber settings bears a broad resemblance to the stone monument at the Stonehenge in England.

When he exhibited it in 1836, Constable appended a text to the title: " The mysterious monument of Stonehenge, standing remote on a bare and boundless heath, as much unconnected with the events of past ages as it is with the uses of the present, carries you back beyond all historical records into the obscurity of a totally unknown period.

Hill used his Maryhill property to build the first paved roads in the Pacific Northwest, the Maryhill Museum of Art ( originally intended as a grand residence for the Hills ), Maryhill Stonehenge, a monument to the World War I dead of Klickitat County in the form of a Stonehenge replica, and a planned community.

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.

Stukeley's work on Stonehenge was one of the first to attempt to date the monument.

Working with the renowned astronomer Edmund Halley, he proposed that the builders of Stonehenge knew about magnetism, and had aligned the monument with magnetic north.

Newgrange is also older than Stonehenge and the great pyramids of Giza It is in fact just one monument within the Neolithic Brú na Bóinne complex, alongside the similar passage tomb mounds of Knowth and Dowth, and as such is a part of the Brú na Bóinne UNESCO World Heritage Site.

These stories cemented the idea of the monument being similar to Stonehenge, one of England ’ s national treasures, despite the many differences between the two sites, and eventually it gained the popular title of " Seahenge ".

Woodhenge is a Neolithic Class I henge and timber circle monument located in the Stonehenge World Heritage Site in Wiltshire, England.

The word henge is a backformation from Stonehenge, the famous monument in Wiltshire.