Stonehenge

Stonehenge is a stone circle in United Kingdom, Neolithic henge monument in Amesbury, Wiltshire, England, UK. Pyramason catalogues it as PYR-110677 at 51.17889, -1.82611 (51°10'44.0"N 1°49'34.0"W).

Wikidata records a construction date of about 3000 BCE.

Recorded heritage designations: World Heritage Site, scheduled monument.

There are 233 other catalogued sites within 5 km of it, 887 within 25 km and 2,047 within 50 km. That density is itself the finding: this is not an isolated monument but part of a worked landscape.

The record

What is around it

• Q and R Holes0.0 km
• Stonehenge Avenue0.1 km
• Bell barrow 100m east of Stonehenge immediately south of the A3440.2 km
• Five bowl barrows forming the greater part of a round barrow cemetery 200m south0.2 km
• Bowl barrow 230m west of Stonehenge forming part of a round barrow cemetery on S0.3 km
• Bowl barrow 300m WSW of Stonehenge, forming part of a round barrow cemetery on S0.4 km
• Heelstone Ditch0.5 km
• A twin bell barrow and a bell barrow forming the eastern part of The Cursus roun0.6 km
• Bowl barrow 500m WNW of New King Barrows north of the A3030.7 km
• Bowl barrow 650m SSE of Stonehenge0.7 km

The shirt

This site is one of the fifty in Collection 01: the monument, its geometry, and these exact coordinates printed beneath.

Further reading

English Wikipedia  ·  Wikidata Q39671