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The most mysterious monument on Salisbury Plain in England continues to resist our attempt to understand it, and at the same time, provides the foundation for countless speculations and theories from the entire field of archeology. It has been thought to be an astronomical observatory, a computer, and a center of earth energies amongst many other interpretations. No one knows for certain what it is used for, how it was created, and who created it, making Stonehenge one of the most puzzling monuments mankind has ever seen. So much has been written and rewritten about the hundreds of different opinions that people have about Stonehenge, and all of them need to be taken into account when considering the origins of this Neolithic architectural miracle. The first question that we must ask in order to try to gain even a simple understanding of Stonehenge is: how was it created? How were these ancient people able to get these monstrous stones that weighed more than twenty tons and located hundreds of miles away to the Salisbury plain? In his article, Stonehenge, Aubrey Burl tells the story of men that ferried the enchanted Welsh stones hundreds of miles. Returning across the Irish Sea from the Wicklow Mountains to their home in s