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Need some niche knowledge to trounce the competition at your next Pub Quiz? Here's our Top Ten Stonehenge Must Knows to ensure your victory:

Need some niche knowledge to trounce the competition at your next Pub Quiz? Here's our Top Ten Stonehenge Must Knows to ensure your victory:

1. The site was started in 3000BC with the digging of the circular ditch and bank.

2. The stones were brought to the site about 2500BC.

3. This period of megalith construction is called the Neolithic.

4. The largest stones are called sarsens, a type of hard sandstone which can be found in the region.

5. The smaller stones are known as bluestones and come from the Preseli Hills in West Wales.

6. We don't know how the stones were transported or raised upright because the methods used have not left a trace in the archaeological record.

7. The stones were shaped using stone balls called mauls or hammerstones and many have been found at Stonehenge.

8. We don't know what Stonehenge was for but its alignment is linked to the summer and winter solstice. Other Neolithic sites such as Newgrange in Ireland and Maes Howe in Orkney also have solstice alignment suggesting the sun was an important part of the belief system at this time.

9. Early in its history Stonehenge was a burial site. Cremated human remains have been found in large circular pits known as Aubrey Holes, and in the bank and ditch.

10. The burial barrows that can be seen surrounding Stonehenge date from the early Bronze Age when the construction of Stonehenge was largely complete.

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06/10/2021

UNCOVERING STONEHENGE ⛏️
In this series we're looking at the archaeologists who've shaped our understanding of Stonehenge through the years. Next up: Professor Mike Parker Pearson
The Stonehenge Riverside Project directed by Mike Parker Pearson between 2005 and 2009 revealed at least seven Neolithic houses located at Durrington Walls. This was the most spectacular of a wealth of discoveries at various sites in the Stonehenge landscape, prompted by Parker Pearson's theory that Durrington with its houses and timber monuments was an area for the living, whereas Stonehenge, built of stone, was a place for the dead. His most recent research has identified a stone circle in West Wales which may have been the original location for at least three of the bluestones now found at Stonehenge. Parker Pearson's long career has included being an Inspector of Ancient Monuments, and teaching at the University of Sheffield and the Institute of Archaeology, University College London.