Lying three kilometres to the north-east is Durrington Walls. Its five hundred metre wide circular ditch and bank make it the largest monument of its type in Britain. Operation Stonehenge: What Lies Beneath? II
The monuments’ innate symmetry has revealed that the architects of Stonehenge had a grasp of geometry. ibid.
The monument’s primary function – to mark the passage of the sun. ibid.
Two-way trade with the continental mainland had flourished. ibid.
The discoveries have placed Stonehenge at the very heart of a fast evolving and dynamic culture. ibid.
Mysterious, strange, impenetrable. Every summer on the solstice Stonehenge becomes a magnet attracting thousands of revellers. But after centuries of speculation and hundreds of documentaries we’re still no more certain of what it is. The Battle for Stonehenge: A Culture Show Special, BBC 2014
This is a national disgrace. ibid.
In June 1985 a four-mile exclusion zone was enforced to stop the Stonehenge free festival. ibid.
It records the violence meted out against the travellers. ibid.
Stonehenge is our greatest monument. It was shaped over centuries. But to what purpose? Was it a temple to the sun, or the moon? An astronomical calendar or a shrine to dead ancestors? Timewatch: Stonehenge, BBC 2013
Stonehenge was built around the same time as the Great Pyramid at Giza in Egypt. It was the biggest and most complicated building project in all Europe. ibid.
For the Druids Stonehenge is a holy place. ibid.
This may have been a place where the sick came to get better. ibid.
Stonehenge: it appears to be a structure years ahead of its time. Ancient Impossible s1e2: Monster Monuments, History 2014
‘These stones from this quarry were transported well over a hundred miles.’ ibid.
Stonehenge: one of the world’s oldest structures. Its foundations predate the Great Pyramids … Could the mystery of Stonehenge be revealed in its builder’s desire to explore the unknown heavens and explore the universe? … Was this the Hubble telescope of its time? The Universe s8e1: Stonehenge, History 2014
Stonehenge: A marvel of prehistoric architecture. An imposing edifice that has dominated the rolling hills of Berkshire’s Salisbury plain for more than four-thousand years. For centuries archaeologists have been piecing together its history. Ancient Mysteries: Stonehenge: The Final Mystery, Channel 5 2017
A team of experts believes it has found the answer. ibid.
The remnants of a giant circle of standing stones some as heavy as forty tons dragged some twenty-five miles. ibid.
What started as a simple stone circle made of just of blue stone evolved into a complex structure four hundred years later. ibid.
‘Why did they build it? … And why do it here.’ ibid. Mike Parker Pearson
Durringham Walls [two miles north-east] held great gatherings of people just like Stonehenge. ibid.
Each burnt fragment of bone buried at Stonehenge had been meticulously collected and treated with the greatest of care. ibid.
Some of the Welsh blue stone may indeed be tombstone for the created remains of people from west Wales … Once the burial ground for the most important figures in prehistoric Britain. ibid.
These gulleys may be the ultimate explanation for Stonehenge’s existence. These mystical lines would have marked out this land as incredibly special. ibid.
Stonehenge represents a crowning achievement for our ancient ancestors. But why did they build it here? Lost Cities with Albert Linn s1e6: Stonehenge, National Geographic 2019
These crazy rocks … They tell a story of us … Imagination, belief, they symbolise what it means to be a human. ibid.
Could this have been one of the first cities? ibid.
Stonehenge: An incredible man-made monument: stones dragged 156 miles and placed upright using levers and counterweights, all without the use of the wheel. Breathtaking now, almost unimaginable then. Secret History of Humans s1e11: Building Earth, Sky 2020
5,000 years ago, before the Egyptians built the pyramids, a mysterious people created some of the greatest monuments of the ancient world. They were the pagan tribes of ancient Britain, and over 3,000 years until the coming of the Roman legions, they build villages of sea-stone like Skala Brae [Orkney], massive tombs like Maeshowe, mounds of chalk and earth like the mysterious Silbury Hill, and the most famous monument in Europe, Stonehenge. Lost Worlds: Pagans, History 2006
They want to find out whether Stonehenge was part of a much larger, now forgotten ceremonial complex that formed a gateway to the land of the dead. ibid.
Stonehenge: Britain’s wonder of the world. Surely the most iconic and most mysterious structure ever constructed in the British Isles. For generations people have argued over its origin, its meaning and its purpose. Alice Roberts, Stonehenge: The Lost Circle, BBC 2021
West Wales: they’ve unearthed the remains of another immense stone circle dismantled just before Stonehenge was created. ibid.
The stones have been rearranged multiple times. The original configuration dating from around 3000 BC was an enormous circle made entirely of blue stones. ibid.
Stonehenge: The world’s most renowned prehistoric monument. It is the most celebrated of more than a thousand stone circles found across the ancient world. The Lost Stonehenge, Channel 5 2023
Stonehenge: monumental, iconic, and one of the greatest mysteries in all of ancient history. Rob Bell, The Stonehenge Enigma: What Lies Beneath? aka Stonehenge: The New Revelations, Channel 5 2021
Technology is revealing a previously unknown giant monument, twenty times bigger than Stonehenge itself. ibid.
Each stone weights up to thirty tons. ibid.
This giant arc of ten huge openings over a kilometre long could be the biggest discovery at Stonehenge in decades. ibid.
Durrington Walls: The largest neolithic settlement found anywhere. ibid.
There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our successes. The fertile Earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And the children dying of (hunger) must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificates – died of malnutrition – because the food must rot (if not sold at a profit) … and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage. John Steinbeck, The Growing Wrath
Deep in the English countries lies one of the most famous ancient monuments: Stonehenge … This colossal ring of stone arches … It’s one of the world’s greatest archaeological sites. Stonehenge: The Discovery with Dan Snow, Channel 5 2024
Operation: The number of people needed to move one of the massive 20-tonne stones. ibid.
The stone circle itself is actually just a small part of a much larger, ancient, more mysterious landscape. ibid.