ggestion to control people"(Andrew Lawson 83.)Construction of Stonehenge took close to 2,000 years. To drag the sarsen stones, weighing up to 45 tons, or the weight of six elephants, from Marlborough Downs 30 kilometers to the south of Stonehenge would have been quite a accomplishment. The bluestones, in contrast, were about four tons but are believed to have come from a much farther place like the Preseli Mountains nearly 385 kilometres away from Stonehenge. Popular theory suggests the stones were rolled to the Welsh shore, carried on raft around the coast and into the River Avon, at Bristol. Other prehistorians do not believe they were carried that far. These bluestones came from the same Preseli Mountains, but glaciation brought the bluestones to the area surrounding Stonehenge during the last glacier period in history, the period was called the Plyoscene period, it was 650,000 years ago. Out of the other 1,300 stone circle in Britain, Ireland and Brittany, France, most are made of local stone brought no more than seven or eight kilometers. If humans were to have carried these stones all the way from these mountains, they would have only taken the good stones. The bluestones found on Stonehenge are a mix of good, bad, and medium rock. Good bluestones were found in the vicinity of Stonehenge thousands of years before the monument was constructed; suggesting the rock was already in the area. "All these things add up together to suggest it was not human beings but a glacier that brought them there"(Audbrey Baul 78.)Stonehenge bears witness to movements in the heavens, observing the rhythm of the moon and, more noticeably, the sun. The first builders, who may have just started farming the near land, might have needed to know when the seasons were about to change. At a later phase in Stonehenge's development, it may have been used as some sort of temple, or it could have been an astronomer's tool, used to judge the movements in the heav...
