Evidence indicates that the area around Stonehenge has been occupied since
around 8000BC, but it was during the Neolithic and Bronze Age periods that the
vast majority of the monuments around it came to be built. Early work at
Stonehenge itself began in 3000BC when an outer ditch and embankment was
constructed, and standing timbers erected. From about 2500BC, Neolithic and
Bronze age man started to bring Bluestones and Sarsen stones from Wales and the
Marlborough Downs. It was not until 1600BC that Stonehenge came to be
completed. Most of the other monuments in the area such as Durrington Walls and
Woodhenge date
