Stonehenge
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: James Atkins Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: James Atkins Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jun 19, 2020 10:52 AM
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History
An ancient formation of stones set in a field near Salisbury (Wiltshire County, England).
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/509089189
51.178854, -1.826268
- Representative Locations:
- Imagery location of Stonehenge (4000 BC - 2500 BC)
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- Stonehenge (English, modern)
- None
- Cursus Barrows (Burial Mounds) connection Stonehenge (unspecified date range)
monument
Pleiades
An ancient formation of stones on the Salisbury Plain. The graves and mounds that surround it may indicate it was part of a wider complex, or that it was a centrepiece to some ritualistic ground. Date of construction is deemed to be ca. 3100 BC. To date, no explanation as to its true use has been certified (see English Heritage article).
James Atkins, jfu, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, Nate Nagy, and Tom Elliott, 'Stonehenge: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/509089189> [accessed: 23 September 2023]
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