释义
a megalithic monument on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire. Completed in several constructional phases from c. 2950 BC, it is composed of a circle of sarsen stones surrounded by a bank and ditch and enclosing a circle of smaller bluestones. Within this inner circle is a horseshoe arrangement of five trilithons with the axis aligned on the midsummer sunrise, an orientation that was probably for ritual purposes.
巨石阵(威尔特郡索尔兹伯里平原上一巨石纪念碑,大约从公元前2950年开始分成几个阶段完成,由一圈砂岩漂砾构成,周围被堤和沟所包围,里面围着一个蓝砂岩小圈,圈内有一个由五个巨石牌坊组成的马蹄形,其轴线与仲夏日出成一线,该朝向的目的很可能是为了举行宗教仪式)。
词源
"from Old English stān ‘stone' + an element related to hengan ‘to hang’."