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One of the most common rocks at Stonehenge is known as Preseli Bluestone—a chemically altered igneous rock containing spots or clusters of plagioclasefeldspar. It is medium grained dark and heavy rock, harder than granite.

The bluestones at Stonehenge were erected in a circle during the third phase of construction at Stonehenge around 2300 BC, and aligned to the Summer solstice. Around 100 years later the Bluestones were rearranged in the horseshoe and circle that we can still see today. The stones weigh between 2 and 4 tons each and the majority of them are believed to have been brought from the Preseli Hills, about 250 miles away in Wales, either through glaciation or through humans organizing their transportation.

When polished, the stone looks like the night sky studded with stars and now, having seen its beauty when polished, it seems obvious that this was reason enough to move them and erect a circle of them.

Locally, the stones are considered as stones of healing and magical and as stated in the early Welsh mythologies, such as the Red Book of Hergest and the Black Book of Carmarthen, Merlin transported some of them to build Camelot, thus Preseli is Merlin and Arthur territory, home to the fairies and gods of the Underworld. It has also been speculated that Stonehenge was built as an astronomical observatory and to have a circle of standing stones polished to such a degree that they looked like the night sky seems fitting.

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