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Perhaps the most reknown of Megalithic Stone Circles throughout the ages is that of Stonehenge, located in Wiltshire, Southern England about three kilometers west of Amesbury. Stonehenge was an ancient, sacred landscape site with circular earth bank, ditch, wood, and stone structures. Dating back to at least 3,100 BCE. Stonehenge measured around 330 feet in diameter. About 2,100 BCE there was a circle of 30 sarsen sandstone, standing stones about 108 feet in diameter that supported sarsen lintels that were held in place by tongue and groove joints. Later on a horseshoe shaped circle of 5 pairs of standing stones with 1 lintel was added. Then sometime between 2000-1100 BCE, smaller horseshoes of bluestones were placed there.
Even though the stones are
orientated to the summer solstice sunrise, mystery stills shrouds the origins
and purposes of the Stonehenge remnants.
Besides being used as a solar temple, Stonehenge might also have served as an interdimensional portal. Another example of Megalithic Standing Stones are "The Stones of Stenness", which are located just east of B9055 in Orkney, Scotland. According to radiocarbon tests, the three remarkable Stones of Stenness, which still remain upright, date from sometime around 3,000 BCE, the same period as the pottery from the Skara Brae coastal settlement. The original circle of twelve standing stones was about 30 meters in diameter and was set inside a rock cut ditch similar to that of the nearby Ring of Brodgar.
Besides the Watch Stone, the
tumbled Troth Stone, where bargains were sealed and love troths plighted
in ages past through a small hole in the stone, was also once in close proximity
to the Stenness Stone Circle...
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