Stonehenge Timeline

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c. 8500 BCE - 7650 BCE
Three large post holes and a tree hole close to Stonehenge show evidence of probable ritual activity on the site long before the appearance of the monument.
c. 3700 BCE
Construction of the causwayed enclosure (a type of large prehistoric earthwork) known as Robin Hood's Ball, 2.8 miles north-west of Stonehenge.
c. 3100 BCE
Stonehenge Phase I - earthen henge dug on the site.
c. 3000 BCE
Stonehenge Phase II - Digging of the Aubrey Holes, which probably contained wooden posts (or perhaps bluestones). Stonehenge functions as a cremation cemetery.
c. 2550 BCE
Phase III at Stonehenge, the refashioning of the simple earth and timber henge into a unique stone monument.
c. 2030 BCE - c. 1520 BCE
The last phase of construction at Stonehenge, the digging of the Y and Z holes outside the outermost sarsen circle.