Secret Of Stonehenge Solved ?

The riddle of Stonehenge as intrigued historians for nearly 2,000 years. More is known about the origins of the Moon that the world's most famous stone circle. Some say the monument - with its careful alignment to the midsummer solstice - was a giant calendar or observatory. Others insist it was a temple of healing - or a massive cathedral to some long forgotten gods. Now a team led by Prof Mike Parker Pearson, of Sheffield University, argue that it was temple of the dead, and used as a cemetery for at least 500 years. The first phase Stonehenge, built in 3000 BC, was a ditch and bank, dug out with animal bones and deer antlers, which enclosed a circle of 56 holes. The holes could have housed wooden posts, but no traces have ever been found. Around 2600 BC, the site was transformed when 82 huge bluestones, some weighing four tons, were brought from Pembrokeshire, Wales, 200 miles away and placed in two circles inside the earthworks. And 150 years later, the ancient Britons mined giant "sarsen" 50 ton stones at Marlborough, cut them to shape and rolled them on sledges and tree trunks 25 miles south to Stonehenge. The bluestones were dug up and repositioned, and the sarsens added – creating the “modern” Stonehenge.