[SunkenCiv]

A symbol of British unity? Wiltshire's famous stone circle is one of the world's most iconic historic sites and a British cultural icon - but its intended purpose has long divided academics

Alzay

[BenLurkin]

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[nickcarraway]

It was this, in metric:

[SaveFerris]

[Stonehenge mystery is SOLVED after 5,000 years - as scientists finally crack why the mysterious monument was built]

It was built for “European Vacation”?

[Mount Athos]

they don’t know at all. It’s a theory, one of many

[Trump_Triumphant]

I thought it was used to make Halloween masks.

[gitmo]

How would scientists come to such conclusions? That’s not science.

[SuperLuminal]

What a crock!
Everyone knows that it was built by galactic aliens to entrap the Doctor in the box...

[frank ballenger]

“A thing of glory”

A few seconds later....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DewEKz9TzmM

[ComputerGuy]

Brought their own local stones

I know it's early and I haven't had my morning covfefe yet, but...

[Lockbar]

A tanning booth for when the Loch Ness monster went on vacation.

[Adder]

Still doesn’t explain why they hauled stones from Scotland...

They could have just had a solstice dinner with haggis, fish ‘n’ tubers and maybe a nice yorkshire pudding.

Or this was just an attraction like Disneyland...

[Terry L Smith]

How many cups of tea to settle that one, eh?

Methinks they run dry of ideas, but had to show something, to keep the grant money coming.

[Stosh]

Thought it was built so some local dwarf would have something to trod upon.

Or maybe that was a smaller version.

[maddog55]

That’s probably the worst explanation ever.

[VideoDoctor]

Gee.. I thought it was built by the Stone Masons Local Union as a TRIBUTE to its GROWING MEMBERSHIP at that time. /s

[Vermont Lt]

I thought it was a calendar/clock?

I don’t think the pre-historic druids were all that concerned with virtue signaling. And to whom were they signaling?

[Jeff Chandler]

[trebb]

Sigh!

What a waste of ...money

[Eli Kopter]

They are time portals. Anyone that watches “Outlander” knows that. //Sarc//

[bert]

Stonehenge is a henge constructed from massive stones.

The function is as an astronomical observatory to tell time

The precession of the earth’s axis and rotation are the only time constants to be reliable year after year after decade

In America, years later, the residents at the city of Cahokia built a wood henge that was correlated with the various permanent mounds to accurately tell time. At the time it was built, Cahokia was more populous than London