Phased reconstruction illustration depicting an aerial view of the mid-third phase of the monument at Stonehenge after about 2600BC, at which point the sarsen stone circle was completed and bluestones reset within the new monument

Date:
circa 1990 - circa 2000
Location:
Stonehenge, Amesbury, Stonehenge Down, Wiltshire
Reference:
IC095/018
Type:
Reconstruction Artwork
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Description

The principal entrance to the monument was then marked by the Heel Stone and three Portal Stones. The bluestones from the earlier monument were reset within this new Stone Circle in an unknown arrangement. See also illustrations IC095/016 - IC095/017 and IC095/019 - IC095/020 for depictions of other construction phases in the monument's history. The illustration was reproduced on page 11 of the 2002 English Heritage guidebook for Stonehenge and Neighbouring Monuments.

Content

This is part of the Volume: IC095 Stonehenge World Heritage Site, Wiltshire; within the Series: EHC01/146 English Heritage Reconstruction And Artwork Collection; within the Collection: EHC01 English Heritage(Eh):Archive

Rights

© Historic England Archive

People & Organisations

Illustrator: Lapper, Ivan

Keywords

Late Neolithic Earthwork, Early Bronze Age Stone Circle