Assignment on Stonehenge.

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Stonehenge Stonehenge is a huge megalithic monument situated on Salisbury Plain, Mid-Wiltshire, England. The ruins of Stonehenge contain stones from three stages of building. These stages took place over a period of roughly 1600 years from 3100 BC to 1500 BC (Chippindale, 1983:271). Stonehenge has been severely damaged by things as different as tourists to weather. What it is today is quite different from what scientists suggest it may have looked like when it was finished (Fig1 and Fig2). …

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…This, I feel makes it highly likely that the Early Britons built Stonehenge, rather than any other culture. In conclusion, I feel that Early Britons built Stonehenge for religious purposes. I believe that only religious purposes would have been able to make so many people devote so much effort into building Stonehenge. It would have taken thousand of men using clever devices to build Stonehenge and is a feat that can hardly be completed today.