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EDITOR'S NOTE
S E L I N A R I C H A R D S
Later in the Bronze Age, although the The Altar Stone may have been moved
exact details of activities during this within the oval at this time and re-
period are still unclear, the bluestones erected vertically. Although this would
appear to have been re-erected. They seem the most impressive phase of work,
were placed within the outer sarsen Stonehenge 3 IV was rather shabbily
circle and may have been trimmed in some built compared to its immediate
way. predecessors, as the newly re-installed
bluestones were not well-founded and
Like the sarsens, a few have timber- began to fall over. However, only minor
working style cuts in them suggesting changes were made after this phase.
that, during this phase, they may have
been linked with lintels and were part Soon afterwards, the north eastern
of a larger structure. section of the Phase 3 IV bluestone
circle was removed, creating a
This phase saw further rearrangement of horseshoe-shaped setting (the Bluestone
the bluestones. They were arranged in a Horseshoe) which mirrored the shape of
circle between the two rings of sarsens the central sarsen Trilithons. This
and in an oval at the centre of the phase is contemporary with the Seahenge
inner ring. Some archaeologists argue site in Norfolk.
that some of these bluestones were from
a second group brought from Wales. All The Y and Z Holes are the last known
the stones formed well-spaced uprights construction at Stonehenge, built about
without any of the linking lintels 1600 BC, and the last usage of it was
inferred in Stonehenge 3 III. probably during the Iron Age.
