The UK police on Wednesday arrested two people, including an Indian-origin man, for spraying an orange substance on Stonehenge, the renowned prehistoric UNESCO World Heritage Site in England.
About Stonehenge:
It is a prehistoric stone circle monument and archaeological site located in Wiltshire, England.
It is composed of roughly 100 massive upright stones placed in a circular layout.
It was built in several stages:
The first monument was an early henge monument, built about 5,000 years ago, and the unique stone circle was erected in the late Neolithic period, about 2500 BC.
In the early Bronze Age, many burial mounds were built nearby.
Purpose:
Though there is no definite evidence as to the intended purpose of Stonehenge, it was presumably a religious site and an expression of the power and wealth of the chieftains, aristocrats, and priests who had it built.
It is just one part of a larger sacred landscape that contained many other stone and wooden structures, as well as burials.
It was aligned with the Sun and possibly used for observing the Sun and Moon and working out the farming calendar.
Along with more than 350 nearby monuments and henges (ancient earthworks consisting of a circular bank and ditch), including the kindred temple complex at Avebury, Stonehenge was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1986.
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