Ancient observatories played a major role in the shaping of our society around the
world. For my observatory, I choose to research Stonehenge. I didn't research it for the
mere fact that it was a widely known observatory but for the fact that it is actually
something interesting to me and I looked forward to finding out more about my choice.
To begin, Stonehenge is located in Salisbury Plain, England. This is about fifty
miles south of London, England. The researchers and historians that have spent countless
years trying to find out who really did build Stonehenge still haven't found an answer.
Although most people have thought that the Druids were the builders of Stonehenge, it
was proven that they arrived in England after work on it had already been completed.
Even still, the Druids did use it for religious ceremonies and some modern day druids still
use it as place of worship. The people that actually built the site brought stones the whole
way from the Prescelly mountains in Pembrokeshire, Wales nearly 100 miles away! The
stones had to also be dragged along an 80 mile detour route to get them to their present
location. Construction of this marvelous site was broken down into three different periods.
The circular ditch and bank of Stonehenge were constructed in 3050 B.C. Then, a wooden
structure was built into it around 2500 B.C. and the stone monument in the center was
constructed, arrange, and rearranged over a period of 1000 years from 2500-3500 B.C.
Overall, the view of Stonehenge was a giant dirt circle surrounding a bunch of
stones but a more in-depth view shows that in the northwestern part of the circle there
was a heel stone. There was also a station stone that stands at the southern part of the
ditch. In the center of the ditch stand the circle of Sarsee stones, the Horseshoe of
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