The earliest monument at Stonehenge was used as a place of burial. Nowadays, it's a .................. site.
magic&witchcraft
music festival
religious
Each year, around 20,000 people gather at Stonehenge to celebrate the S................ S......................, when the sun is at its highest point in the sky all year. It makes for a spectacular sunrise!
Summer Solstice
Stonehenge isn’t just a stone circle.The Stonehenge half of the World Heritage Site includes over 700 known archaeological features, including find spots; 180 scheduled monuments: henges, timber structures, enclosures and many burial mounds
false
true
How was Stonehenge built? In the 12th century giants placed the monument on a mountain in Ireland, before a wizard named Merlin magically moved the stone circle to England.
true
false
What was Stonehenge used for? Although no one really knows for sure, the stones themselves give us a few clues.
a cemetery: about 200 people are buried on the grounds
all
could have been a place of healing where sick people flocked
may have been a ‘calendar’, linked to the study of the stars
The average Stonehenge sarsen weighs 25 tons. The largest stone, the Heel Stone, weighs about ..... tons.
40
30
35
They're 500 years older than the oldest Pyramids.
True
False
It's pretty romantic! People get proposed to at Stonehenge every month! Not everyone would find a Neolithic religious site full of human bones particularly romantic, but some do!
false
true
Work started on Stonehenge about ......years ago - in the Neolithic period, or the later part of the Stone Age.
5,000
3,000
1,000
4,500
Around 180 generations have passed since the stones were erected at Stonehenge, but people were living at the site long before Stonehenge was built.
true
false
The first aerial photograph of Stonehenge was taken almost ........years ago. It was shot from a military air balloon by Lieutenant Phillip Henry Sharpe of the Royal Engineers’ Balloon Section.
20
120
520
320
The five Neolithic Houses are based on real dwellings
true
false
The Stonehenge part of the World Heritage Site covers 2,600 hectares (6,500 acres) of chalk downland and arable fields. It’s an area seven-and-a-half times as big as ...........
Hyde Park In London
Central Park in New York City
Winchester College grounds
Stonehenge is a huge man-made circle of standing......... Built by our ancestors over many hundreds of years, it’s one of the world’s most famous prehistoric monuments… And one of it’s biggest mysteries, too!
stones
Stonehenge was bought at an auction in 1915. It was purchased for........ by local businessman Cecil Chubb, who (reportedly) came to the auction to buy some dining chairs.
£96,600
£6,600
£16,600
£66,600
The first excavations were carried out at Stonehenge in ........ The Duke of Buckingham undertook an excavation in the centre of the monument prompted by a visit from King James I. Unfortunately we know little about what was found.
1720
1820
1620
1920
Stonehenge, one of the world's most amazing historical sites, is in ........, England.
Worcestershire
Leicestershire
Wiltshire
Gloucestershire