Station Stones

Originally there were four stones, resembling the four corners of a rectangle that straddles the inner sarsen circle, set just inside Stonehenge's surrounding bank.

The ring ditches surrounding these barrows respect the presence of Stonehenge's encircling bank indicating that they postdate this feature.

The other two corners of the rectangle are occupied by the two surviving stones which are undressed sarsens.

As they cannot be said with certainty to have been contemporaneous with other stones or posts at Stonehenge, archaeoastronomical theories regarding their function have been treated with scepticism by mainstream archaeology.

This suggests that they were laid out to a geometric plan and challenges the theory that the positions were astronomically determined.