, Stonehenge II, and Stonehenge III. Stonehenge I was built in the Stone Age about 2200 B.C. There was a large circular space nearly one hundred yards across and was enclosed by a dirt bank. At that time Stonehenge was a simple open-aired temple (Abels 9). Stonehenge II was built between the time periods of 1700 and 1600 B.C. A large number of bluestones were brought in from Wales which is one hundred and forty miles away from Stonehenge. Then they began forming two different circles inside the original circle (Abels 12). Stonehenge III was built in 1600 B.C. during the Bronze Age. At this time the sarsen stones were brought in from Marlborough Downs, about twenty miles away from Stonehenge. During this period the stones arrangement became very complex (Abels 13). The first thing that was started on in the construction of Stonehenge was the digging of the ditch. The ditch was dug with deer antlers. They made a large pile of the antler dust which was close to six feet tall (Atkinson 6). Radiocarbon dates for antler picks that were abandoned show a date of around 3100 B.C. for early Stonehenge I activity. Late in Stonehenge I, many cremations took place and many people were buried in Aubrey holes, in the bank, and in the ditch fill. The radiocarbon dates on the bodies found date back to about 2300 B.C. (Chippindale 267). After the ditch was finished they began working on the bank. The bank stands on the immediate inner edge of the ditch. The diameter of the ditch was about three hundred and twenty feet. Only a small portion of the bank still remains today. The present day bank is two feet tall and it was originally about six feet tall (Atkinson 25). The final phase of Stonehenge, Stonehenge III, was completed at about 2100 B.C. (Wiltshire). There are a few theories of how stones at Stonehenge were moved. Two possible ways that the stones at Stonehenge got there, are that the stones were rolled on logs and also, the stones were moved on ra...
