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Anderson
Masonry, Inc. was contracted to supply the stones for this
duplicate of Stonehenge. We have included a slide
show of this reproduction.
The following original history and
construction taken from http://www.mysteriousplaces.com/stonehenge/megaliths.html
"Around 3500 BC the semi-nomadic peoples that populated
the Salisbury Plain began to build the monument now known
as Stonehenge. The original construction was a circular ditch
and mound with 56 holes forming a ring around its perimeter.
The first stone to be placed at the site was the Heel Stone.
It was erected outside of a single entrance to the site. 200
years later 80 blocks of bluestone was transported from a
quarry almost 200 miles away in the Prescelly Mountains. It
is surmised that these blocks were transported by way of rafts
along the Welsh coast and up local rivers, finally to be dragged
overland to the site. These stones were erected forming two
concentric circles.
At some point this construction was dismantled and work began
on the final phase of the site. The bluestones were moved
within the circle and the gigantic stones that give Stonehenge
its distinctive look were installed. Some of these massive
stones weigh as much as 26 tons! It remains a mystery how
such huge stones could have been moved from the quarry at
north Wiltshire by a supposedly primitive people. "
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