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Stonehenge [{GoogleMap location='Stonehenge, Amesbury, Großbritannien und Nordirland' zoom='15'}] as seen from the north barrow, Wiltshire County, England. 

The stone circle was built about 2500 B.C. by a non-writing culture and is composed of earthworks surrounding a circular setting of large standing stones with several hundred burial mounds. 

Among its many suggested functions are that it may have served as: an astronomical observatory, a religious site, a domain of the dead, or a place of healing. It has also been connected to Arthurian legend.