Stone Hege's Influence And The Mystery Of Stonehenge

There is a prehistoric and mysterious monument on Salisbury Plain about which we have restrict-ed information: Stonehenge. For years there have been claimed plenty of arguments about Stone-henge; some people think that it was created by aliens and many people associate it with Druids and Merlin. On this paper, it will be instructed when Stonehenge was built, by whom it was built and what theories were about Stonehenge’s mystery.

Stonehenge is a statue that had been placed on Wessex, England and was not known pre-cisely who built it or for what purpose it was built. As it was told in Caroline Malone and Nancy Stone Bernard’s Stonehenge book “the meaning of the name of Stonehenge is ‘hanging stones’ because people thought the stones were hanging from the uprights” (10). Stonehenge was de-clared as World Heritage Site by United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organiza-tion (UNESCO) (Malone, 8). Unfortunately Stonehenge was affected badly by negligent people and much of that bad effect are tourist erosion. Even though deterioration on surface of stones, many archeologists and historians made numerous researches about it. Today one of the facts that we gain is Stonehenge’s age. Thanks to the 21st century technology, we learned that Stonehenge is some 5.000 years old (Malone, 10).

When we look at the pictures showing us how Stonehenge was been seeing at past and compare these pictures with Stonehenge’s current looking, we can easily say that only half of the great sarsens have survived, some of lintels fallen. Most deplorable part about stones is about bluestones; in The Making of Stonehenge Castleden thinks that “Bluestones are more manageable in size, so more of them have been carted away”. (5)

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...e main purpose and design of Stonehenge is thought to be create a horseshoe and circle. Their builders were most probably Beaker people who lived 3,500 years ago. They came and invaded Salisbury Plain. It is possible that Beaker people build Stonehenge because they wanted to create a home for their an-cestors and dead ones. According to archeologists Stonehenge is only part of a monument which is more enormous design. Other part of religious monument could had been a wooden structure.

It is believed that in some parts of year, people went there for religious ceremonies. Ac-cording to their beliefs death and life symbolize cycles. When they travel to the area where Stonehenge places, they took their relatives’ dead bodies. At last, it can be claimed that Stone-henge have been used as a temple, it was precious and in the center of many religious feelings.