whats the meaning of Stonehenge?

There are numerous theories as to why Stonehenge was built. At the time it was made, people in the area were herders and farmers. They left no written records behind.

An “avenue” connecting Stonehenge with the River Aven is aligned with the solstice. In addition, research at the nearby ancient settlement of Durrington Walls, a site that also contains a series of wooden pillars, shows that pigs at the site were slaughtered in December and January, suggesting that the winter solstice was marked at Stonehenge.

The burials at Stonehenge offer another clue. Recent research indicates that the burials took place from its beginning, around 5,000 years ago, to its high point when the sarsen stones were set down. Among the burial goods is a mace head, an item historically associated with elite members of society. This discovery raises the question whether the people buried at the monument were local leaders and Stonehenge, in some way, commemorated them.

One new theory about Stonehenge, released recently by members of the Stonehenge Riverside Project, is that Stonehenge marks the “unification of Britain,” a point when people across the island worked together and used a similar style of houses, pottery and other items.

It would explain why they were able to bring bluestones all the way from west Wales and how the labor and resources for the construction were marshalled.

The most recent deliberation about Stonehenge was that it was built in honor of the dead and the afterlife. Across the river from it - and aligned with it was what they now call "Woodhenge", which was dedicated to Life and Fecundity (reproduction/fertility). For further information on this, watch "National Geographic: Stonehenge Decoded" (2008). It's streaming on Netflix now. Worth the watch, and a lot more accurate than the half-*ssed answers you'll get here. It was NOT built by the Druids, but by the pagan tribes and people. Of course the Druids used it and directed them where to place the stones for alignment, but they were not personally and solely responsible for it being built.

Nobody knows.

It was built by (supposedly) the Druids, somewhere around 2000 to 3000 BC, and it's considered an engineering and construction marvel for its time. That's all anybody knows for sure.

The civilization that built it is extinct, and they didn't leave any written records as to what exactly it was or how they built it or even why. Some say it was a calendar, some say it was an altar for human sacrifices, and some say it was built by aliens. Because always with the friggin' aliens.

There is alwas a team or two of archeologists or anthropologists studying it at any given time, and they're trying to answer your questions: Who built it, why, and what the hell is it? But because whoever built it didn't leave anything but the rocks behind, we may never know why.

Stonehenge is a prehistoric

monument in Wiltshire ,

England, about 2 miles

(3.2 km) west of Amesbury

and 8 miles (13 km) north of

Salisbury. One of the most

famous sites in the world,

Stonehenge is the remains

of a ring of standing stones

set within earthworks . It is

in the middle of the most

dense complex of Neolithic

and Bronze Age monuments

in England, including several

hundred burial mounds .[1]

Archaeologists believe it was

built anywhere from 3000 BC

to 2000 BC.

here is map if you want to go

https://maps.google.co.in/maps?client=ms-opera-min...

Here is its image

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c...

It means that society was organised and civilised enough to plan, transport and erect the stones. This was not by the Druids,, it was by the dwellers of the Atlantic Archipelago around 4000 years ago.