Stonehenge Stonehenge and its purpose remains an enigma even now, more than 4,000 years after it was first begun. It could have been a temple, an astronomical calendar, or guide to the heavens. Despite the fact that we don't know its purpose for certain, Stonehenge acts as a prehistoric timepiece, allowing us to theorize what it would have been like during the Neolithic Period, and who could have built this megalithic wonder. Construction took place in …showed first 75 words of 2943 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2943 total…were brought from a long way away," says Witcombe. "Which also, incidently, signifies how important that spot on Salisbury Plain must be if they went to all that trouble to get those stones to that particular place." "It's not the stones that make it sacred. It's the spot that's already sacred, or holy, and then the stones are built," says Witcombe. And construction couldn't have been much easier than hauling those stones all that way.