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Stonehenge is a megalithic monument dating
from about 2000 BC on Salisbury Plain,
Wiltshire, England. It consisted originally
of a circle of 30 upright stones, their tops
linked by lintel stones to form a continuous
circle about 30m (100ft) across. Within the
circle was a horseshoe arrangement of five
trilithons (two uprights plus a lintel, set
as five separate entities), and a so-called
`altar stone', an upright pillar-on the axis
of the horseshoe at the open, North East end,
which faces in the direction of the rising
sun. It has been suggested that it served as
an observatory.
Subject by: Vince Pike