🪨 c. 2500 BC | How Stonehenge Was Built? What you’re seeing: A team of Neolithic workers (late Stone Age farmers in Britain) hauling one huge sarsen stone. A sarsen is a very hard sandstone block that forms the big outer stones in the main ring at Stonehenge. The stone is tied to a wooden sledge and dragged across wet grass with thick ropes. When was Stonehenge built? Archaeologists think Stonehenge was built in stages between about 3000 and 2000 BC. The first ditches and wooden posts came early. This scene shows the later phase, around 2500 BC, when the massive sarsen stones were raised into the circle we recognize today. How are they moving the stone? This shows one leading idea: sledge plus wooden rollers. The stone sits on a heavy wooden frame. Round logs under the sledge act like rollers, and animal fat is poured on the wood to make it slippery so the stone slowly inches forward. Where did the stones come from? Most of the big sarsen stones seem to come from the Marlborough D...