Stonehenge is a prehistoric megalithic structure on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, two miles (3 km) west of Amesbury. It consists of an outer ring of vertical sarsen standing stones, each around 13 feet (4.0 m) high, seven feet (2.1 m) wide, and weighing around 25 tons, topped by connecting horizontal lintel stones, held in place with mortise and tenon joints, a feature unique among contemporary monuments. Inside is a ring of smaller bluestones. Inside these are free-standing trilithons, two bulkier vertical sarsens joined by one lintel. The whole monument, now in ruins, is aligned towards the sunrise on the summer solstice and sunset on the winter solstice. The stones are set within earthworks in the middle of the densest complex of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments in England, including several hundred tumuli (burial mounds). Stonehenge was constructed in several phases beginning about 3100 BC and continuing until about 1600 BC. One of the most famous landmarks in the United Kingdom, Stonehenge is regarded as a British cultural icon. Cecil Chubb bought the site for £6,600 (£668,000 in 2023) in 1915 and gave it to the nation three years later, with certain conditions attached. We celebrate this remarkable stone age site with an AI image of Chubb donating it to the nation …

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October 26
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