Stonehenge Late Neolithic Early Bronze Age
Stonehenge Avenue
Stonehenge Phase 3 II Sarsen Horseshoe
Heel Stone
Station Stones
Stonehenge Phase 3 II Sarsen Circle
Stonehenge Late Neolithic Early Bronze Age is in Stonehenge Chronologically, South England Late Neolithic Early Bronze Age.
Europe, British Isles, South-West England, Wiltshire, Stonehenge Landscape, Stonehenge Monuments and Burials, Prehistoric Stonehenge, Stonehenge Phase 3 II Sarsens, Stonehenge Phase 3 II Sarsen Horseshoe [Map]
2500BC. Stonehenge Phase 3 II Sarsen Horseshoe [Map] is five dressed sarsen trilithons arranged in horseshoe shape 13.7 metres across with its open end facing the midsummer sunrise. The largest trilithon is the middle one of which only one stone remains: 6.7m remains above ground but would have been 7.5m when complete, 2.4m below ground, around 50,000kg. The next two are smaller, around 6.7m and the last two smaller still; 6m high.
Europe, British Isles, South-West England, Wiltshire, Stonehenge Landscape, Stonehenge Monuments and Burials, Prehistoric Stonehenge, Stonehenge Phase 3 II Sarsens
Stonehenge Phase 3 II Sarsens describes the erection of a number of standing stones: Heel Stone [Map], Slaughter Stone [Map] and the Station Stones.
Carbon Date. 2520BC. Late Neolithic Carbon Dates
Report: Bone: Bos primigenius
ID: 6074, C14 ID: OxA-4842 Date BP: 4520 +/- 100, Start Date BP: 4420, End BP: 4620
Abstract: Stonehenge, England
Archaeologist Name: Allen
Reference Name: Archaeometry 38(2), 1996, 391-415
Council for British Archaeology (2012) Archaeological Site Index to Radiocarbon Dates from Great Britain and Ireland [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor] https://doi.org/10.5284/1017767
Europe, British Isles, South-West England, Wiltshire, Stonehenge Landscape, Stonehenge Monuments and Burials, Prehistoric Stonehenge, Stonehenge Phase 3 II Sarsens, Heel Stone [Map]
Heel Stone [Map] is a sarsen stone. It was accompanied by a second stone which is no longer extant. The date of the erection of the stone is unknown.
Europe, British Isles, South-West England, Wiltshire, Stonehenge Landscape, Stonehenge Monuments and Burials, Prehistoric Stonehenge, Stonehenge Phase 3 II Sarsens, Station Stones
Station Stones. Four sarsen stones, two of which stood on top of mounds. The erection of the stones post-date the construction of the ditch.
Stonehenge Phase 3 II Sarsens describes the erection of a number of standing stones: Heel Stone [Map], Slaughter Stone [Map] and the Station Stones.
Europe, British Isles, South-West England, Wiltshire, Stonehenge Landscape, Stonehenge Monuments and Burials, Prehistoric Stonehenge, Stonehenge Phase 3 II Sarsens, Stonehenge Phase 3 II Sarsen Circle [Map]
2500BC. Stonehenge Phase 3 II Sarsen Circle [Map] is the erection in 2500BC ±100 years of thirty sarsen stones with lintels forming a 33m Stone Circle. Thirty may be significant given the number of days in a month in early calendars. The stones came from West Woods Quarry 25km away. The stones were dressed. The lintels secured using tongue and groove joints. Each standing stone was 41.m high, 2.1m wide and weighed around 25,400kg. The lintel stones are 3.2m long, 1m wide, 0.8m thick and slighted curved.
Carbon Date. 2023BC. Early Bronze Age Carbon Dates
Report: Antler, from context 1093, Sarsen Circle Stonehole 1 [Map] (C2.1), Phase 3ii at Stonehenge, Wiltshire, England. Comment (subm): Date accepted as reliable; 2 sigma cal range given.
ID: 8063, C14 ID: UB-3821 Date BP: 4023 +/- 21, Start Date BP: 4002, End BP: 4044
OS Letter: SU, OS East: 123, OS North: 422
Archaeologist Name: (ed Cleal)
Reference Name: Cleal, R M J et al, 'Stonehenge in its landscape: 20th century excavations' (Engl Heritage Archaeol Rep, 10, 1995), 204, ??? 2, Table 64; Archaeometry, 38, 1996, 401-7
Council for British Archaeology (2012) Archaeological Site Index to Radiocarbon Dates from Great Britain and Ireland [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor] https://doi.org/10.5284/1017767
Europe, British Isles, South-West England, Wiltshire, Stonehenge Landscape, Stonehenge Monuments and Burials, Prehistoric Stonehenge, Stonehenge Phase 3 II Sarsens, Stonehenge Phase 3 II Sarsen Horseshoe [Map]
2500BC. Stonehenge Phase 3 II Sarsen Horseshoe [Map] is five dressed sarsen trilithons arranged in horseshoe shape 13.7 metres across with its open end facing the midsummer sunrise. The largest trilithon is the middle one of which only one stone remains: 6.7m remains above ground but would have been 7.5m when complete, 2.4m below ground, around 50,000kg. The next two are smaller, around 6.7m and the last two smaller still; 6m high.