VRA Core 4 Example 3: Ancient Megalithic stone circle

Work record [refid 3]
agent	unknown (European)
culturalContext	European; British [date note] Most recent phase of activity dates to ca. 1550 BCE.
date	ca. 3200- ca. 1600 BCE (inclusive)
description	Visitors see today the remains of the final stage of Stonehenge, a prehistoric temple used as a place of worship and burial. In its first stage it was a large earthwork--"henge"--a bank and ditch enclosing the Aubrey holes (named after their 17th century discoverer) arranged in a circle. Later (around 2100 BCE) 80 bluestones were brought from the Preseli mountains in Wales and arranged in a double circle in the center. Somewhat later sarsen stones were arranged in an outer circle with continuous lintels and five trilithons were arranged in a horseshoe, the axis of which pointed to the midsummer sunrise. Even later (1550 BCE) the bluestones were rearranged in the horseshoe and circle.
inscription
location	Stonehenge (Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom) [note] on the Salisbury Plain
material	stone; sarsen (sandstone); bluestone
measurements	29.7 m (diameter); 6.7 m (height, tallest stone); 45.2 ton (weight, largest stone)
relation
rights
source	Core 4 Sample Database (VCat) [source, description] Digital Imaging Project; Mary Ann Sullivan, Bluffton University; http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/ (accessed 2/23/2009)
stateEdition
stylePeriod	Late Bronze Age; Neolithic
subject	death or burial; timekeeping; Astronomy, Ancient; Sun Rising and setting; prehistoric stone circle; megaliths; lunar temple; solar temple; standing stones; religion and mythology; ceremonial site; post-and-lintel
technique	construction (assembling)
textref
title	Stonehenge [en, cited, preferred] Stone Henge [en, cited, alternate]
worktype	buildings; religious buildings; temples; buildings; research buildings; observatories; built works; monuments