Stonehenge
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Stonehenge is a prehistoric megalithic structure on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, two miles (3 km) west of Amesbury. It consists of an outer ring of vertical sarsen standing stones, each around 13 feet (4.0 m) high, seven feet (2.1 m) wide, and weighing around 25 tons, topped by connecting horizontal lintel stones which are held in place with mortise and tenon joints—a feature unique among contemporary monuments. Inside is a ring of smaller bluestones. Inside, these are free-standing trilithons, two bulkier vertical sarsens joined by a single lintel. The whole monument, now in ruins, is aligned towards the sunrise on the summer solstice and sunset on the winter solstice. The stones are set within earthworks in the middle of the densest complex of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments in England, including several hundred tumuli.
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Ludgershall Castle ⓘ
castle in Ludgershall, Wiltshire, England, UK 
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Old Sarum ⓘ
site of the earliest settlement of Salisbury in England -
Old Wardour Castle ⓘ
Grade I listed castle in Wardour, Wiltshire, England, UK -
Houghton Lodge ⓘ
country house in Houghton, Hampshire, England, UK -
Alexander Keiller Museum ⓘ
museum in South West England, United Kingdom -
Andover Museum ⓘ
Museum in Andover, United Kingdom -
Arundells ⓘ
historic house museum in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK -
Breamore House ⓘ
country house in Breamore, Hampshire, England, UK -
Mompesson House ⓘ
18th century house in Cathedral Close, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK -
The Wiltshire Regimental Museum ⓘ
museum in Devizes, England, UK -
Salisbury Museum ⓘ
museum in Salisbury, England, United Kingdom -
Wiltshire Museum ⓘ
Museum in Devizes, England, United Kingdom -
Hawk Conservancy Trust ⓘ
bird park and conservation charity in Weyhill, Hampshire, England -
The Rifles (Berkshire and Wiltshire) Museum ⓘ
military museum in Salisbury, England, United Kingdom -
Army Flying Museum ⓘ
aviation museum in England, United Kingdom -
Atwell-Wilson Motor Museum ⓘ
museum in Calne, England, UK -
The Merchants House ⓘ
museum in Marlborough, England, UK -
Fordingbridge Museum ⓘ
museum in Fordingbridge, England, United Kingdom -
Boscombe Down Aviation Collection ⓘ
museum in Old Sarum, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK
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Stonehenge - gray and great. View from the north west. Wiltshire, UK
Stonehenge, Condado de Wiltshire, Inglaterra, 2014-08-12, DD 10
Stonehenge, Condado de Wiltshire, Inglaterra, 2014-08-12, DD 16
Stonehenge, Condado de Wiltshire, Inglaterra, 2014-08-12, DD 08
Stonehenge, Condado de Wiltshire, Inglaterra, 2014-08-12, DD 04
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Stonehenge, Condado de Wiltshire, Inglaterra, 2014-08-12, DD 13
Stonehenge, Condado de Wiltshire, Inglaterra, 2014-08-12, DD 06- The petrography, geological age and distribution of the Lower Palaeozoic Sandstone debitage from the Stonehenge Landscape - article published in 2017, online
- Earlier evidence for Stonehenge carvings? - scientific article published in 1991, online
- 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Stonehenge - , 1997, online
- Stonehenge with Sheep - painting by W. Gray, 2016, online
- Stonehenge in its Landscape: Twentieth Century Excavations - scholarly article by Roger Mercer published in March 1997, 1996, online
- Houses of the Holy: Architecture and Meaning in the Structure of Stonehenge, Wiltshire, UK - scientific article published on 2 April 2016, 1929, online
- Stonehenge Published - scholarly article by Anthony Harding published in January 1996, 1953, online
- Stonehenge - scholarly article published June 1929, Q1860, 1995, online
- Zedler:STONE HENGE - encyclopedia article published in Grosses vollständiges Universal-Lexicon Aller Wissenschafften und Künste, German, 2020, online
- Stonehenge / Jacquetta Hawkes. - (06.1953) - scientific article published in June 1953, Q1860, 2005, online
- Stonehenge in its landscape - archaeological report on Stonehenge, English, 2021, online
- Stonehenge and middle to Late Neolithic cremation rites in mainland Britain (c. 3500-2500 BC) - doctoral thesis by Christina Catherine Willis, 2014, online
- Stonehenge - encyclopedia article published in 2005, 2018, online
- Sanningen om Stonehenge - episode of Vetenskapens värld, 2009, online
- New era for Stonehenge - scholarly article by Christopher Chippindale published in June 2014, Q1860, 1922, online
- Zedler:Stonehenge - encyclopedia article published in Grosses vollständiges Universal-Lexicon Aller Wissenschafften und Künste, German, 2015, online
- Lives before and after Stonehenge: An osteobiographical study of four prehistoric burials recently excavated from the Stonehenge World Heritage Site - scholarly article by S. Mays et al published August 2018 in Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2012, online
- Stonehenge excavations 2008 - scholarly article by Timothy Darvill published in April 2009, 1973, online
- Second Report on the Excavations at Stonehenge - article by W. Hawley published January 1922 in Antiquaries Journal, 2020, online
- Analytical Surveys of Stonehenge and its Environs, 2009–2013: Part 2 – the Stones - , 1922, online
- Stonehenge remodelled - scholarly article by Timothy Darvill published in December 2012, Q1860, 2011, online
- Excavation of three post-holes in Stonehenge car park - article published in 1973, 1986, online
- Long-distance landscapes: from quarries to monument at Stonehenge - chapter published in 2020, 1978, online
- Recent Excavations at Stonehenge - scientific article published in Nature in 1922, Q1860, 2020, online
- The detailed petrography of six orthostats from the Bluestone Circle, Stonehenge - article published in 2011, 1998, online
- James Bridge's Stonehenge - article published in 1986, 1998, online
- Recent excavations at Stonehenge - article by Richard J. C. Atkinson & J.C. Evans published November 1978 in Antiquity, Q1860, 1998, online
- Stonehenge: The Sarsens Originated from West Woods, Wiltshire - Article published in Scientific European on 30 July 2020, 1921, online
- Stonehenge: its possible noncompletion, slighting and dilapidation - article published in 1998, Q1860, 2013, online
- Stonehenge: is the medium the message? - scholarly article by John C. Barrett published in December 1998, 2021, online
- Stonehenge for the ancestors: the stones pass on the message - scientific article published in June 1998, 1997, online
- Stonehenge : Interim Report on the exploration - article published in 1921, 1981, online
- Stonehenge, Wiltshire, UK: High Resolution Geophysical Surveys in the Surrounding Landscape, 2011 - scientific article published on February 2013, 1876, online
- Med norrsken i blick - episode of Vetenskapens värld, 1991, online
- Misleading images: Stonehenge and Brittany - , Q1860, 1970, online
- The New Student's Reference Work/Stonehenge - , 2022, online
- Another way to lift the Stonehenge lintels - , Q1860, 1991, online
- Stonehenge and its barrows - article published in 1876, 2013, online
- The Geological Sources and Transport of the Bluestones of Stonehenge, Wiltshire, UK - scientific article published in 1991, 1967, online
- Sunrise and moonrise at stonehenge - scientific article published on 01 March 1970, Q1860, 2014
- Keeping time at Stonehenge - scientific article published on 2 March 2022, Q1860, 1930
- A Durotrigian coin from Stonehenge - article published in 1991, 1977
- A re-examination of rhyolitic bluestone 'debitage' from the Heelstone and other areas within the Stonehenge Landscape - article published in 2013, 1978
- Eclipse Cycles and Eclipses at Stonehenge - scientific article published in Nature, Q1860, 1978
- Parchmarks at Stonehenge, July 2013 - scientific article published on 26 August 2014, 1963
- Stonehenge and the two-date theory - article by Maud Cunnington published April 1930 in Antiquaries Journal, 1994
- Interpreting Stonehenge - journal article; published in Nature on 1977-1, Q1860, 1966
- Some new measurements on Stonehenge - , 2020
- Some new measurements on Stonehenge - , 2020
- Zedler:Riesen-Tantz - , German, 2020
- Stonehenge Decoded - scientific article published in Nature, Q1860, 2010
- Stonehenge: slaughter, sacrifice and sunshine - scientific article published in 1994, 1965
- Speculations on Stonehenge - , Q1860, 2015
- Origins of the sarsen megaliths at Stonehenge - scholarly article, 2017
- Origins of the sarsen megaliths at Stonehenge - scholarly article, 2021
- Using scale modelling to assess the prehistoric acoustics of Stonehenge - scholarly article by Trevor Cox et al published October 2020 in Journal of Archaeological Science, 2006
- The petrography, affinity and provenance of lithics from the Cursus Field, Stonehenge - article published in 2010, 1941
- Moonshine on Stonehenge - , Q1860, 1893
- Craig Rhos-y-felin: a Welsh bluestone megalith quarry for Stonehenge - scholarly article by Mike Parker Pearson published in December 2015, Q1860, 1998
- Stonehenge - encyclopedia article, 1924
- The original Stonehenge? A dismantled stone circle in the Preseli Hills of west Wales - scientific article published in February 2021, 2016
- A detailed re-examination of the petrography of the Altar Stone and other non-sarsen sandstones from Stonehenge as a guide to their provenance - article published in 2006, 1953
- The Sources of Geoffrey of Monmouth. II. The Stonehenge Story - , Q1860, 1925
- Notes of sections of Stonehenge rocks belonging to Mr. W. Cunnington - article published in 1893, 1983
- Stonehenge: Making Space - book published in 1998, 1974
- Fourth Report on the Excavations at Stonehenge - article by W. Hawley published January 1924 in Antiquaries Journal, 2013
- The rock-carvings of Stonehenge: ways today of figuring out its prehistoric art - scientific article published in 2016, Q1860, 2022
- The Date of Stonehenge - scholarly article by Richard J. C. Atkinson published in December 1953, 2008
- Report on the Excavations at Stonehenge during the season of 1923 - article by W. Hawley published January 1925 in Antiquaries Journal, 2013
- Stonehenge Complete - book published in 1983, 1984
- Stonehenge - scholarly article published June 1974, Q1860, 1971
- Opened visitor center at Stonehenge: Just in time for winter solstice 2013 - Wikinews article, German, 1997
- Novel insights into prehistoric land use at Stonehenge by combining electromagnetic and invasive methods with a semi-automated interpretation scheme - scientific article published in 2022, 1991
- Visitor Attitudes to Stonehenge: International Icon or National Disgrace? - , Q1860, 2002
- MKL1888:Stonehenge - , German, 2002
- Set in Stone: How our ancestors saw Stonehenge - book published in 2013, 2019
- Stonehenge - the environment in the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age and a Beaker-Age burial - article published in 1984, 1883
- Glaciation and the stones of Stonehenge - scientific article published on 01 September 1971, Q1860, 1923
- The sarsen horseshoe inside Stonehenge: a rider - scientific article published in 1997, 2012
- The Heel Stone, Stonehenge, a study in misfortunes - scientific article published in 1991, 2007
- An Anglo-Saxon decapitation and burial at Stonehenge - scientific article published in 2002, 2019
- An Anglo-Saxon decapitation and burial at Stonehenge - scientific article published in 2002, 2006
- Stonehenge - book edition published in 2019, Czech, 1983
- Stonehenge notes: The fragments - article published in 1883, 1974
- Third Report on the Excavations at Stonehenge - article by W. Hawley published January 1923 in Antiquaries Journal, 2022
- Stonehenge: Exploring the Greatest Stone Age Mystery - book published in 2012, 2007
- The age of Stonehenge - scholarly article by Mike Parker Pearson published in September 2007, Q1860, 2016
- Stonehenge - episode of You're Dead To Me, English, 2016
- Materializing Stonehenge - scholarly article by Mike Parker Pearson published in July 2006, 2020
- An excavation at Stonehenge, 1981 - article published in 1983, 2018
- C. A. Newham and Stonehenge - , Q1860, 1902
- Stonehenge Dacite Group D: Fact or fiction? - article published in 2022, 1976
- A revised date for the early medieval execution at Stonehenge - article published in 2007, 1655
- The dead of Stonehenge - scientific article published in April 2016, Q1860, 2013
- U–Pb zircon age constraints for the Ordovician Fishguard Volcanic Group and further evidence for the provenance of the Stonehenge bluestones - scientific article, 1966
- Constraining the provenance of the Stonehenge ‘Altar Stone’: Evidence from automated mineralogy and U–Pb zircon age dating - scientific article, 2022
- Strontium isotope analysis on cremated human remains from Stonehenge support links with west Wales - scientific article published in Scientific Reports, Q1860, 1923
- Recent Excavations at Stonehenge - article published in 1902, 1991
- A Possible Pythagorean Triangle at Stonehenge - scientific article published in June 1976, 2023
- The Most Notable Antiquity of Great Britain, vulgarly called Stone-Heng on Salisbury Plan - book published in 1655, 2009
- Stonehenge World Heritage Site Synthesis: Prehistoric landscape, environment and economy - report published in 2013, 2025
- cultural depictions of Stonehenge - , 1976
- Stonehenge–a Neolithic “Observatory” - scientific article published in Nature, Q1860, 2014
- Mythical rings? Waun Mawn and Stonehenge Stage 1 - , Q1860, 1954
- The Source of the Stones of Stonehenge - , 2024
- Ritual, time and history - scholarly article by Richard Bradley published in October 1991, 2024
- The Stonehenge Altar Stone was probably not sourced from the Old Red Sandstone of the Anglo-Welsh Basin: Time to broaden our geographic and stratigraphic horizons? - scientific article published in October 2023, 1952
- Who was buried at Stonehenge? - scientific article published in March 2009, Q1860, 2013
- Stonehenge - Die Kathedrale der Zeit - , English, 1967
- The Station Stones at Stonehenge - , Q1860, 1928
- Carn Goedog is the likely major source of Stonehenge doleritic bluestones: evidence based on compatible element geochemistry and Principal Component Analysis - scholarly article by Richard E. Bevins et al published February 2014 in Journal of Archaeological Science
- The Symbols carved on Stonehenge - , Q1860, 1877
- Stonehenge’s enigmatic centre stone was hauled 800 kilometres from Scotland - scientific article published on 14 August 2024, 1935
- Stonehenge’s enigmatic centre stone was hauled 800 kilometres from Scotland - scientific article published on 14 August 2024, 2019
- The Excavation of two additional holes at Stonehenge, 1950, and new evidence for the date of the Monument - article, 1992
- Carn Alw as a source of the rhyolitic component of the Stonehenge bluestones: a critical re-appraisal of the petrographical account of H.H. Thomas - scientific article published in August 2013, 1979
- Hoyle on Stonehenge: Some Comments - , Q1860, 1929
- Report on the Excavations at Stonehenge during 1925 and 1926 - article by W. Hawley published April 1928 in Antiquaries Journal, 2014
- Analytical Surveys of Stonehenge and its Immediate Environs, 2009–2013: Part 1 – the Landscape and Earthworks - scholarly article by David Field published in August 2014, 2011
- Stonehenge: the petrology of its stones - article published in 1877, 1926
- Stonehenge and its Date - book published in 1935, 2020
- What if none of the Building Stones at Stonehenge Came from Wiltshire? - scholarly article by Katy A. Whitaker published in January 2019, 2014
- More about the Heel Stone - scientific article published in 1992, 1985
- Lucas de Heere's Stonehenge - , Q1860, 2008
- Stonehenge - scholarly article; Antiquity, volume 3, issue 09, Q1860
- Combining EMI and GPR for non-invasive soil sensing at the Stonehenge World Heritage Site: the reconstruction of a WW1 practice trench - article by T. Saey et al published 2 December 2014 in European Journal of Soil Science
- Stonehenge rhyolitic bluestone sources and the application of zircon chemistry as a new tool for provenancing rhyolitic lithics - scientific article published in March 2011
- Report on the Excavations at Stonehenge during the Season of 1924 - article by W. Hawley published January 1926 in Antiquaries Journal
- ‘No provenance is better than wrong provenance.’ Milford Haven and the Stonehenge sandstones - article published in 2020
- Unveiling the prehistoric landscape at Stonehenge through multi-receiver EMI - scholarly article by Philippe De Smedt published in October 2014
- Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Stonehenge bluestones - article published in 1985
- The quest for the earliest published image of Stonehinge (sic) - article published in 2008
| Type | Subtype | Date | Description | Notes | Source |
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| site | castle | Ludgershall Castle | castle | Wikidata | |
| site | castle | Old Sarum | castle, human settlement, contour fort | Wikidata | |
| site | castle | Old Wardour Castle | castle, archaeological site, local authority museum | Wikidata | |
| site | garden | Houghton Lodge | garden, English country house | Wikidata | |
| site | museum | Alexander Keiller Museum | museum, history museum | Wikidata | |
| site | museum | Andover Museum | museum, independent museum | Wikidata | |
| site | museum | Arundells | house, historic house museum, independent museum, country house | Wikidata | |
| site | museum | Breamore House | English country house, historic house museum, country house | Wikidata | |
| site | museum | Mompesson House | building, history museum | Wikidata | |
| site | museum | The Wiltshire Regimental Museum | museum | Wikidata | |
| site | museum | 1860 | Salisbury Museum | independent museum, local museum | Wikidata |
| site | museum | 1873 | Wiltshire Museum | museum, local museum, history museum | Wikidata |
| site | museum | 1980 | Hawk Conservancy Trust | zoo, charitable organization | Wikidata |
| site | museum | 1982 | The Rifles (Berkshire and Wiltshire) Museum | regimental museum, independent museum | Wikidata |
| site | museum | 1987 | Army Flying Museum | military museum, independent museum | Wikidata |
| site | museum | 1989 | Atwell-Wilson Motor Museum | museum | Wikidata |
| site | museum | 1991 | The Merchants House | museum | Wikidata |
| site | museum | 1998 | Fordingbridge Museum | museum, independent museum | Wikidata |
| site | museum | 2012 | Boscombe Down Aviation Collection | aviation museum | Wikidata |
| commons | image | Stonehenge - gray and great. View from the north west. Wiltshire, UK | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Stonehenge, Condado de Wiltshire, Inglaterra, 2014-08-12, DD 10 | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Stonehenge, Condado de Wiltshire, Inglaterra, 2014-08-12, DD 16 | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Stonehenge, Condado de Wiltshire, Inglaterra, 2014-08-12, DD 08 | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Stonehenge, Condado de Wiltshire, Inglaterra, 2014-08-12, DD 04 | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Stonehenge, Condado de Wiltshire, Inglaterra, 2014-08-12, DD 11 | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Stonehenge, Condado de Wiltshire, Inglaterra, 2014-08-12, DD 10 | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Stonehenge, Condado de Wiltshire, Inglaterra, 2014-08-12, DD 16 | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Stonehenge, Condado de Wiltshire, Inglaterra, 2014-08-12, DD 13 | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Stonehenge, Condado de Wiltshire, Inglaterra, 2014-08-12, DD 06 | Commons | ||
