Case file · Sacred site
Stonehenge
The great Neolithic stone circle on Salisbury Plain, aligned to the solstices.
2,600 BCE · 51.18, -1.83 · status: documented
The account
Raised in stages from around 3000–2000 BCE, its sarsens and bluestones frame the midsummer sunrise and midwinter sunset. A ceremonial and burial landscape whose exact purpose is still debated.
Connections in the atlas
- ? How did Stonehenge’s bluestones get there?
- Julia Set crop formation, Stonehenge
- William Stukeley
- ? Who makes crop circles?
- Alexander Thom