The earliest structures known in the immediate area are four or five pits, three of which appear to have held large pine totem-pole like posts erected in the Mesolithic period, between … See more

One of the last prehistoric activities at Stonehenge was the digging around the stone settings of two rings of concentric pits, the so-called Y and Z holes, radiocarbon dated by antle… See more

The small town of Amesbury is likely to have been established around the 6th century AD at a crossing point over the Avon. A decapitated man, possibly a criminal, was buried at Stonehenge in the Saxon period.[15] From thi… See more

This was the start of a sequence of campaigns to conserve and restore Stonehenge the last stones were consolidated in 1964.[19] See more

At this time, when much of the rest of southern England was largely covered by woodland, the chalk downland in the area of Stonehenge may have b… See more

In about 2500 BC the stones were set up in the centre of the monument. Two types of stone are used at Stonehenge the larger sarsens and the smaller bluestones. The sarsens were erected in two concentric arrangements a… See more

Since 1897, when the Ministry of Defence bought a vast tract of land on Salisbury Plain for army training exercises, the activities of the military have had an impact on the area. Barracks, firing ranges, field hospitals, airfi… See more

The monument remained in private ownership until 1918 when Cecil Chubb, a local man who had purcha… See more

From 1927, the National Trust began to acquire the land around Stonehenge to preserve it and restore it t… See more