Stonehenge 3 I

In the middle of the sanctuary were built around the year 2600 BC, two concentric semicircles of 80 upright stones, the so-called blue stones. Although they were later transferred, the holes where the stones were then laid down (the so-called Q-and R-holes), but are detectable. Again, there are few useful dating evidence for this phase. The blue stones come from the territory of the Preseli Mountains, located about 380 miles from Stonehenge, located in present-day Pembrokeshire in Wales. The rocks are mainly of dolerite, but with inclusions of rhyolite, tuff and volcanic and calcareous ash. They weigh about four tons. The altar stone known as six tons of heavy stone is made of green sandstone. He is twice as large as the blue stones were also brought here from Wales, probably through an ice age, perhaps he was a great monolith in the center.

At this time the entrance was widened, so he just lay in the direction of the midsummer sunrise and sunset on the winter solstice that time. The blue stones were, as mentioned, after some time away and the Q and R holes filled.

Maybe even the heel stone was erected during this period outside the northeast entrance. The dating is uncertain, in principle, each section of the third phase of the question. There probably was a second stone, but no longer exists. Two, possibly three, large portal stones were set up inside the northeastern entrance. Only one of them, 4.9 m long, is - upset - still preserved.

Loosely dated to phase 3 of Stonehenge, the structure of the four Station Stones and the installation of the Avenue, one on both sides by ditches and earthworks marked path that leads over a distance of 3 km to the River Avon. Held sometime in the third phase of construction trenches were both around the station as well as stones at the heels of stone that have stood as a single monolith must be the latest.

This phase of Stonehenge is the one that sees the Amesbury Archer would have to replace, in the late phase of the Henge of Avebury, Stonehenge appears as the central cult place in the region.