Stonehenge mosaics built using 200,000 Lego bricks

Three large two-metre-wide mosaics of Stonehenge have been built using hundreds of thousands of Lego bricks.

The giant artworks were created by experts using sections of mosaic made by visitors to the World Heritage Site in mid-April.

Nearly 200,000 Lego bricks were used in total to create the mosaics at the site as part of the 'Big Brick Build'.

An English Heritage spokesperson said: "We chose a range of photos for the mosaics, which give a feel for the different aspects of Stonehenge."

Tony Gandolfi, deputy operations manager, said "hundreds of thousands of bricks" were used to make the mosaics.

"Last year we built the stones, this year it's a flat picture of the stones," he said.

"Standard bricks in lots of different colours [were used] to make the mosaics - very much like the [mosaics] you'd find in a Roman villa."

Visitors were each given a small part of the image to build, and the mammoth friezes slowly evolved over the nine days of the event

"The Lego is appropriate because the stones themselves are [like] giant Lego pieces," Mr Gandolfi added.

"Each of the standing uprights have mortise and tenon joints that fit into the lintels very much like a Lego piece.

"So Lego is very, very appropriate."

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