1. Story of England: Stone Age to Roman Days
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Blue Stones of Stonehenge
There are two concentric circles, a horseshoe of chylathons and huge sausons. Then we get a wooden structure? Yes, at that time we think there were some wooden posts in what we now call the entrance to stonehenge. And then there's a series of two concentric Circles of postholes, which I believe could have held timber posts before the stones actually came in. The whole thing is built on a solar alignment to reflect the mid-summer sunrise and the mid-winter sunset. We don't really know exactly how they would have got them here. There is a thought that the blue stones might have had healing qualities.
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