They used mortise and tenons to locate the lintels on the trilithons.
Stonehenge has two Heelstones (one is now missing), two "Slaughter Stones," four Station Stones, 30 outer ring uprights, 30 lintels, five Trilithon uprights, five Trilithon Lintels, one Altar stone and a lot of bluestones (total there are 79 major stones, mostly 'sarsen' and 80 or so bluestones). In other words, Stonehenge has a lot more than 12 stones!
There are many stone circles in Britain and indeed in the rest of the world. There are also quite a lot of henged circles but Stonehenge is the only henged circle which has lintels placed horizontally across the tops of some of the stones. This combined with the huge size of the stones makes it unique.
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The Oxford English Dictionary cites Ælfric's 10th-century glossary, in which henge-cliff is given the meaning "precipice", a hanging or supported stone, thus the stanenges or Stanheng "not far from Salisbury" recorded by 11th-century writers are "supported stones". William Stukeley in 1740 notes, "Pendulous rocks are now called henges in Yorkshire...I doubt not, Stonehenge in Saxon signifies the hanging stones. Christopher Chippindale's Stonehenge Complete gives the derivation of the name Stonehenge as coming from the Old English words stān meaning "stone", and either hencgmeaning "hinge" (because the stone lintels hinge on the upright stones) or hen(c)en meaning "hang" or "gallows" or "instrument of torture". Like Stonehenge's trilithons, medieval gallows consisted of two uprights with a lintel joining them, rather than the inverted L-shape more familiar today.The "henge" portion has given its name to a class of monuments known as henges. Archaeologists define henges as earthworks consisting of a circular banked enclosure with an internal ditch. As often happens in archaeological terminology, this is a holdover from antiquarian usage, and Stonehenge is not truly a henge site as its bank is inside its ditch. Despite being contemporary with true Neolithic henges and stone circles, Stonehenge is in many ways atypical - for example, at over 24 feet (7.3 m) tall, its extant trilithons supporting lintels held in place with mortise and tenon joints, make it unique.
Stonehenge is in the country, but there is a guided audio tour and a giftshop on the Stonehenge site.
Stonehenge is in the country, but there is a guided audio tour and a giftshop on the Stonehenge site.
No. Stonehenge is in Wiltshire, England.
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it's Stonehenge !!! :)
yes Stonehenge is still there in England