Where is Stonehenge located in Britain?

Stonehenge is located in Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England.

Stonehenge consists of huge stones, each weighing about 50 tons. Its main shaft, the ancient road leading to the stone pillar and the rising sun in the morning of summer solstice are on the same line; In addition, there are two stones pointing to the direction of sunset from winter to Sunday.

Built around 4000 ~ 2000 BC (from March to April 2008, British archaeologists discovered that Stonehenge was built around 2300 BC) on the Salisbury Plain. Some towering boulders stand in rings in the green wilderness, which is the most famous and mysterious prehistoric relic in the British Isles.

Astronomical significance of Stonehenge

The main axis of the stone steps points to the direction from summer to sunrise, and the connecting line between the two huge stones 93 and 94 points to the direction from winter to sunset. At the beginning of the 20th century, after years of research, the British astronomer Rockell announced that it was inferred that Stonehenge marked a calendar with eight solar terms in a year.

From 65438 to 0965, astronomer Hawkins of Boston University determined by computer that the arrangement of Stonehenge may be related to the position of the sun and the moon in the sky, and 56 Aubrey caves played an accurate role in predicting the solar eclipse. Hawkins pointed out in Unveiling Stonehenge: In fact, the circle formed by Aubrey Pit may have been used to speculate the movement of many celestial bodies.