Daily Celestial Challenge Wednesday- Structures (Stonehenge, The Mistery)

fjvzla (36)in #celestialchallenge • 6 years ago

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#Stonehenge is, today, the most mysterious megalithic monument that exists.

This monument has inspired countless writers when it comes to creating great literary works, which have become the best sellers worldwide. from which I would like to highlight #sam #christer and his book the enigma stonehenge, an excellent work in which we can provide a little in the history of this great monument.

Stonehenge is formed by large blocks of metamorphic rocks distributed in four concentric circles. The exterior, thirty meters in diameter, is formed by large rectangular stones of sandstone that, originally, were crowned by lintels, also of stone, being today only seven in the same place. Inside this outer row is another circle of smaller blocks of bluish sandstone. This encloses a structure with a horseshoe shape built with sandstone stones of the same color. In its interior remains a slab of micaceous sandstone known as «the Altar».

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In its beginning it was a circular monument of ritual character surrounded by a slope and a moat, in a similar way to many others located in the south of England.

Finally, the monument took on its current appearance, for which 32 blocks of sandstone were transported from the Preseli Mountains to the southwest of Wales and the stone of the "Altar" was brought from a region near Milford Haven. It is currently speculated that they could have been moved using wooden or stone balls or bearings as bearings, and not with logs as originally thought.

A final mention should be made with the article published in the London newspaper The Times in 2001, who reported the fraud committed with this monumental complex, because by means of photos and studies of the land they tried to demonstrate that at the beginning of the 20th century, the architectural complex it had changed, so that, although the stones were there from time immemorial, however, they were not in that position. They concluded by saying that they had been given that shape in a circle and horseshoe to revitalize the area economically and give it a greater tourist attraction.

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