Stonehenge, Wiltshire, England
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English Heritage[2] and Britannica[3] date the erection of Stonehenge’s sarsen circle and trilithons to approximately 2500 BCE.Around 2500 BCE, Neolithic Britons hauled 25-ton sarsen stones about 15 miles (25 km) to Salisbury Plain and raised them into the trilithons and circle known as Stonehenge.
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