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title: Plan of Stonehenge
author: Adamsan
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# Plan of Stonehenge

_Authored by Adamsan_

## Image File

[![Plan of Stonehenge](https://www.worldhistory.org/uploads/images/308.jpg)](https://www.worldhistory.org/uploads/images/308.jpg)

## Image Caption

The site of [Stonehenge](https://www.worldhistory.org/stonehenge/) as of 2004. The plan omits the trilithon lintels for clarity. Holes that no longer, or never, contained stones are shown as open circles and stones visible today are shown coloured, grey for sarsen and blue for the imported stone, mainly bluestone. Key to plan:

1. The Altar Stone, a six ton monolith of green micaceous sandstone from Wales
2. barrow without a [burial](https://www.worldhistory.org/burial/)
3. "barrows" (without burials)
4. the fallen Slaughter Stone, 4.9 metres long
5. the Heel Stone
6. two of originally four Station Stones
7. ditch
8. inner bank
9. outer bank
10. The Avenue, a parallel pair of ditches and banks leading 3 km to the River Avon
11. ring of 30 pits called the Y Holes
12. ring of 29 pits called the Z Holes
13. circle of 56 pits, known as the Aubrey holes
14. smaller southern entrance

Sources: - Cleal, Walker, & Montague, Stonehenge in its Landscape (London, English Heritage 1995)
- Pitts, M, Hengeworld (London, Arrow 2001)

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[Original image](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Stonehenge_plan.jpg) by [**Adamsan**](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Stonehenge_plan.jpg). Submitted by [Jan van der Crabben](https://www.worldhistory.org/user/jvdc/ "User Page: Jan van der Crabben"), published on 26 April 2012. The copyright holder has published this content under the following license: [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0deed.en). This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon a work even for commercial reasons, as long as they credit the author and license their new creations under the identical terms. When republishing on the web a hyperlink back to the original content source URL must be included. Please note that content linked from this page may have different licensing terms.