If this was a settled landscape with communities, farmed areas, ritual features, and even a few wooden henges scattered about there might have been quite a few options for the siting of this ambitious thing we now call Stonehenge. I wonder how many wooden henges there were in the general area?

Surely there must have been a very long gap between Mesolithic settings and the Neolithic ones -- 2,000 - 3,000 years at least?

A scatter of available big stones in the neighbourhood may have been what decided the locals to try something made out of stone. The site itself is pretty innocuous -- that has struck me every time I've been there -- no summit, no vast vistas, just a gentle slope on a rolling piece of downland...