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Jun 8, 1000
The Beaker people leave in 1000. B.C.
In, 1000.B.C. the Beaker people left Stonehenge . It is thought that it was because they felt there farmland was used up and because wanted to migrate elsewhere in Europe. -
Jun 11, 1400
The second phase of Stonehenge ends in 1400 .B.C.
In, 1400 .B.C the second phase of Stonehenge is over. Then they
keep building and putting stones up until it is complete in 3000.B.C. What the people create will be the most interesting Neolitihic site in the world. -
Jun 10, 1500
The Wessex people arrive in 1500.B.C.
In 1500 B.C. the Wessex people came to Stonehenge. They helped start a trade route using the roads left behind from the Beaker people. They were skilled craftspeople who made swords for one of the first times in the Stonehenge period after the Windmill and Beaker people. -
Jun 24, 1500
The Wessex people leave Stonehenge around 1500.B.C.
The Wessex people came after the Windmill and the Beaker people. The Wessex people were there far longer than any other group, throughout the Bronze Age . It is thought that the changing climate, and farmland needs made them decide to move. -
Second phase of Stonehenge starts in 1650 .B.C.
In 1650. B.C, the second part of Stonehenge is started by the tribes. So they start restart to dig holes for the stones and hull more in from the quarries in England. Then soon they are putting stones up as much as before. -
First first phase of Stonehenge of Stonehenge ends
In the year of 1650.B.C. the first phase of Stonehenge was done,
Next the tribes planned out what the second part of Stonehenge was going to be. -
The first excavation of Stonehenge
In 1666 , the Aubrey Family owned the site .They were the first family known to have investigated the site. John Aubrey noted that the holes were sunken and that there was a need for preservation of the stones on the site , because some had fallen over and had landed on the ground. -
Second excavation at Stonehenge
In 1723, there was anouther excavation taken on by two people who were William Cunningham and Richard Colt Hoare . They carefully noted the holes. They noted how it was originally put up
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The third excavation at Stonehenge
In 1798, there was anouther investigation into Stonehenge that revealed that there was a hole for a trilithon stone. Next they mapped the hole and later in the next excavation they figured out by digging how the stone fit into place. -
Fourth trip to Stonehenge in 1900
On New Years Eve of 1900 Stonehenge was starting to fall apart. So following a letter written by Mr. William Flinder Petrie to the Times, he got a mining engineer who helped to raise the stones that had collapsed and found some artifacts that were the most detailed since those found in 1839. -
Mr. Cecill Cub buys Stonehenge for his wife
In 1915, after Colonel William Harvey and his assistant Robert Newell let Mr. Cecill Cub buy Stonehenge and the 30 acre land site. This was because she wanted the land and it was for sale after many excavations had been attempted . She sold the land to the British government for archeological excavation purposes.
the archeologists who made a multi phase restoration plan. -
Work begins after land given by British Government to Archeologists
In 1919, after the goverment finshed the land sale and the Stonehenge transfer was complete, Hawley and Newall restarted their project of excavating the site. They had funding from the Office of Works which helped them by funding the purchase of their materials . They helped make a multiphase plan to arrrange how they would do the step by step work. -
Their phase by phase excavation plan is complete
In 1926 , The plan for the phase by phase excavations was complete with a multi phase site plan . Then Colonel William Hawley and his assistant Mr. Robert Newall had made a plan that would eventually lead to the Society of Antiquities investigating and finding some cremations adding to the big record of artifacts. -
The Society of Antiquities investigates Stonehenge
In the year of 1950, the Society of Antiuqaries investigated the site and made a phrasing that still dominates the Stonehenge, that still dominates what is writen about Stonehenge and how.They were famous for finding more artifacts and very famously found more evidence of ancient peoples. -
Fifth trip to Stonehenge
In 1979, there was anouther excavation at Stonehenge to see what was near the heel stone. What they were looking for was was there any more artifacts and human settlement evidence. What they found was evidence of a village and some pot remains. -
Sixth trip to Stonehenge
In 1980 there was another trip to Stonehenge when they looked where the Heelstone used to be. There they looked and found some remains of the pottery and craftsmenship of the former people who lived there thousands of years before. -
The first phase of the building of Stonehenge in 2000 .B.C.
In,the year 2000.B.C and 1650.B.C. it is thought the Wessex tribe was invoved in the later processe of building the original stone circle. In this first part the holes were dug and the stones where rolled over into the hole on log rollers . Then the stones where put up and secured. -
Seventh trip to Stonehenge
In 2003, after 23 years MIke Parker Pearson and his team started to investagate Stonehenge because he wanted to be a part of the Stonehenge Riverside Project. The project was about mapping out the stones for seeing how it reacted to it environmental environs. He made the documentary from 2004 until 2010. -
River side project carried out by York University
In, May 2005 there was a project done by a team of 70 from York University called Riverside to test the soil and to begin to get samples from the site. The other reason for the project was to create a report about the site and what was still to be found out in the future. -
Excavations at Stonehenge begin to pinpoint origins
In March 2008 there was an attempt by archeologists to pinpoint the date of Stonehenge. There had been a demand for dating the site for the last few decades. When they investigated they found through carban dating that it may have been built in 2300 B.C. But they were not sure and there was evidence of spiritual healing there. -
Break through at Stonehenge in excavation
In April 2008, there was a major break through in the digs led by
professor Tim Darwell and Geoff Wanright of the London Society of Antiquities. They discovered that there were sockets for blue stones which could have been for spiritual healing. It changed how people understood Stonehenge in each persons perspective. -
Claim of Burials of important tribal people
In May 2008,there was evidence discovered at Stonehenge that
suggested that it was used as a burial ground for important tribal people . The evidence was that there are burials near Stonehenge that are from earlier in the era and later time periods. -
Goeffery goes to Stonehenge with archeologists for recording.
In September 2008, after 4 months of piecing together the puzzle with the evidence of Spiritual healing stone remains , Mr.Geoffery Wanwright of the Antiquities Society went to Stonehenge.There he dated the blue stones to being 2,400 to 2, 200 years old. -
National Geogrpahic airs Decoding Stonehenge show
In November 2008, the theories and evidence of Mike Parker Pearson's Woodhenge aired, It first aired on U.S. TV and was popular so it transfered to Canada where it attracted many scholars to his books and archelogical works. -
Mike Parker Pearson takes a trip to Stonehenge
Mike Parker Pearson confirms the theory of Stonehenge being a burial ground for woman, Children and other people. He thinks so becuase of the bones found on the site by his team. What he found most striking was how it was built on a solstice pattern to line up with the sun and moon so precisely. -
Unknown Woodhenge lines discovered at Stonehenge
In September 2014, when they had nearly stopped out of having a difficult time , they were using sonar on the ground and to their amazement they found previously a 330 metre long line with 50 unknown Woodhenge holes. But was even more amazing was that these lines with were previously undiscovered. -
The first Stonehenge stones are raised
In the year of 2200 .B.C., the first stones were raised by the people at the site. The stones went up one by one as they dug holes for them in the ground. -
The Beaker people arrive at stonehenge in 2200.B.C.
In 2200 B.C. the Beaker people arrived at Stonehenge. They are thought to have arrived from Spain. And are thought to have been very sophisticated because they buried their dead with pendants and swords for good luck. -
The other stones are raised at stonehenge 2400 .B.C.
In 2400 B.C. ,the stones at Stonehenge were starting to be put up because the groups had begun this project . It was built by placing stones transported from a quarry on logs . Next they the stones up in the newly dug holes. -
The building of Stonehenge starts in 2800. B.C.
In, 2800 B.C. , Stonehenge was starting to be built by the Windmill people and the Wessex priests . It is thought that it was built for sacrifices and for the solstice activities on June 21st. -
Stonehenge is finished in 3000 . B.C.
In 3000 B.C. , Stonehenge was finished and the site was soon in use and we think it was a site for many important events like Solstice celebrations .Then the groups would start to gather there for spiritual ceremonies. -
Summer Solstice at Stonehenge
Once Stonehenge was done in 3000.B.C, people would gather and watch the sun touch between the stones. To the druids back then to this day . It was and still is as a seen as important because it's the spiritual change of the seasons from Spring to Summer . It's seen an important time of year in the pagan tradition. -
The windmill people arrive at Stonehenge in 3000.B.C.
In, 3000 .B.C. the Windmill people arrive at Stonehenge and are the first group to arrive there. By that time they had a settlement on Windmill Hill. They lived there until 3500 B.C. Then the Beaker people arrive in 3600 . B.C. and inhabited the ancient site with the other people. -
The Windmill people leave Stonehenge in 3500 . B.C.
In, 3500. B.C. the Windmill people leave Stonehenge after being their since 3500. B.C. Since they left the Beaker people came soon after them in 3600. B.C.
