Stonehenge
/ˌstəʊnˈhendʒ/- a megalithic monument on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire. Completed in several constructional phases from c. 2950 BC, it is composed of a circle of sarsen stones surrounded by a bank and ditch and enclosing a circle of smaller bluestones. Within this inner circle is a horseshoe arrangement of five trilithons with the axis aligned on the midsummer sunrise, an orientation that was probably for ritual purposes.巨石阵(威尔特郡索尔兹伯里平原上一巨石纪念碑, 大约从公元前2950年开始分成几个阶段完成, 由一圈砂岩漂砾构成, 周围被堤和沟所包围, 里面围着一个蓝砂岩小圈, 圈内有一个由五个巨石牌坊组成的马蹄形, 其轴线与仲夏日出成一线, 该朝向的目的很可能是为了举行宗教仪式)。
词源
from Old English stān 'stone' + an element related to hengan 'to hang'.