British architecture

There is no place in all Britain and few in the whole world, so surrounded by mystery as the group of huge, rough-cut stones which people call Stonehenge – place of the “hanging stones”. This “Riddle of Ages” is situated on the Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, a county in south-western England. It is the most famous and probably the most remarkable of all prehistoric monuments in the country. Started 5,000 years ago and remodelled several times in the centuries that followed. It represents one of the most remarkable achievements of prehistoric engineering. It is made of many upright stones, standing in groups of twos, 8,5 meters high. They are joined on the top by other flat stones, each weighing about 7 tons. They form a 97 foot-diameter circle that once held 30 columns and an inner horseshoe of even grander blocks, some 200 feet tall.