Stonehenge is a Neolithic / Bronze Age monument located on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, southern England. The first monument on the site, began around 3100 BCE, was a circular 'henge' earthwork about 360 feet (110 metres) in diameter, a 'henge' in the archaeological sense being a circular or oval-shaped flat area enclosed by a boundary earthwork.
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Timeline
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c. 8500 BCE - 7650 BCEThree 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.
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c. 3700 BCEConstruction of the causwayed enclosure (a type of large prehistoric earthwork) known as Robin Hood's Ball, 2.8 miles north-west of Stonehenge.
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c. 3100 BCEStonehenge Phase I - earthen henge dug on the site.
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c. 3000 BCEStonehenge Phase II - Digging of the Aubrey Holes, which probably contained wooden posts (or perhaps bluestones). Stonehenge functions as a cremation cemetery.
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c. 2550 BCEPhase III at Stonehenge, the refashioning of the simple earth and timber henge into a unique stone monument.
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c. 2030 BCE - c. 1520 BCEThe last phase of construction at Stonehenge, the digging of the Y and Z holes outside the outermost sarsen circle.
