The stones that make up Stonehenge came from all over Great Britain
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Stonehenge may have been built to symbolize a unification in Stone Age Britain. The idea could explain why many of the stones that make up the monument were brought over great distances.
Located on Salisbury Plain in southern England, Stonehenge appears to have been built in phases between 3100 and 1600 BC. Sars has an outer ring of vertical stones topped with horizontal lintels; within this is a smaller ring of vertical blue stones and several other stones, including a horizontal one…
