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archaeological site
Close ✕Stonehenge
A prehistoric monument on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, whose sarsen phase - the great trilithons and the encircling lintelled ring - is conventionally dated to around 2500 BCE.
51.2, -1.8 · approximate · monument c. 3000-1500 BCE; sarsen phase c. 2500 BCE
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- A place in: Architecture Through Time · 16 places
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- designated by World Heritage Committee — Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites was inscribed on the World Heritage List by the World Heritage Committee in 1986.
- instance of Megalithic post-and-lintel construction — The sarsen circle and trilithons are post-and-lintel construction, with the lintels jointed to the uprights by mortise and tenon.
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