Stonehenge Stonehenge was an assemblage of giant stones erected in Wiltshire during the 2nd Millennium BC . Guinevere Winchester described it as " Britain ' s favourite old ruin " , after Barbara Cartland . According to one incarnation of the Doctor , Stonehenge was a " child ' s construction kit " , compared to the Gates of Martontigan . ( PROSE : " Revenants " ) John Brent had a theory that Stonehenge was in reality an ancient spaceport . ( PROSE : " Time and Relative " ) In fact , he wasn ' t too far off from the truth — Stonehenge served as the burial site and hiding place of the Pandorica , an ancient box used by the Alliance to trap the Eleventh Doctor . They used the shape itself of the rocks as a huge transmitter to send over the members of the Alliance should the Doctor come to call . ( TV : " The Pandorica Opens " ) History . Creation . A strange coloured standing " stone " appeared in an empty field , lined up with the rising sun , on Salisbury Plain for a few moments before disappearing . This began happening again and again , annually every year , and the natives began to see it as a sign from the heavens . In tribute of the stone , they began to bring massive stones to the field and assemble them into a circular configuration around the spot where the stone appeared over the next two thousand years . ( PROSE : " The Secret of the Stones " ) During this time , the Eighth Doctor and Samantha Jones visited and witnessed the construction , ( PROSE : " The People ' s Temple " ) and the Monk allegedly used an anti - gravity lift to assist in the completion of the complex . ( TV : " Checkmate " ) The " stone " eventually stopped making annual appearances . This was due to the " stone " , in actuality the Doctor ' s TARDIS , ending its course of annual landings to create a " snapshot " history of Stonehenge ' s construction so the Tenth Doctor and Martha Jones could determine how and why it was built . Following this , a final standing stone was erected in the TARDIS ' place . Ironically , the Doctor had avoided materialising normally in an attempt to not interfere with Stonehenge ' s creation . ( PROSE : " The Secret of the Stones " ) At some point during or after its completion , the Alliance placed the Pandorica beneath Stonehenge for the Eleventh Doctor to find . The pillars beneath Stonehenge began to act as a transmitter for the members of the Alliance to converge on it in 102 . The transmission was sent to everyone and to all time zones , resulting in Vincent van Gogh having visions of the opening of the Pandorica . ( TV : " The Pandorica Opens " ) The Pandorica opens . During the times of the druids , Cybermen were believed to have been guarding the Pandorica underneath Stonehenge . Parts of Cybermen such as arms and heads lay on the ground around the henge . The Doctor believed they had been " dusted up by the locals " . ( TV : " The Pandorica Opens " ) The Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond arrived in the area near Stonehenge in 102 after finding coordinates for the time and place from River Song on Planet One . Reuniting with River , they travelled to Stonehenge by horse and examined it , discovering a secret passage under one of the stones leading to the Pandorica ' s underground chamber , shortly before the Alliance arrived in orbit around the Earth , headed for Stonehenge . To prepare , River summoned Rory and the " Romans " to Stonehenge back them up for battle against them , while Doctor managed to delay the Alliance ' s landing briefly , standing in the middle of Stonehenge with the Alliance ships ' spotlights drawn on him while addressing them with a communicator , by threatening them with his reputation , which sent the ships retreating . After sending River off to retrieve the TARDIS , Doctor pieced together the Romans ' status as Autons shortly before a signal from the Pandorica directed them to capture him . The Alliance returned and landed , forcing and locking him inside the Pandorica in their attempt to stop the universe ' s destruction . Moments afterwards , the TARDIS ' s destruction destroyed the entire universe aside from Earth . ( TV : " The Pandorica Opens " ) , turning the Alliance members to stone in the process ( TV : " The Big Bang " ) Immediately following the destruction , Rory was able to free the Doctor with help from the latter ' s future self and put Amy ( who Rory had unwillingly shot with his Auton wrist - gun ) into the Pandorica to recover . Wanting to make sure she was safe for the 1900 years necessary , Rory remained at Stonehenge as the Doctor used River ' s vortex manipulator to skip to the future , and moved move the Pandorica out of Stonehendge at an unknown point in time . A stone Dalek was also retrieved from Stonehenge and eventually placed in the National Museum with the Pandorica , where its reopening by the younger Ameila Pond would reactivate it . Following the Doctor ' s resetting of the universe , the Alliance ' s actions were undone , leaving Stonehenge as it was when it was originally built . ( TV : " The Big Bang " ) 20th century . In either November or December 1967 , one of the stone s of the monument had " a circular symbol with an ' R ' in it " — the symbol of the Revolution Man — carved into it over night . ( PROSE : " Revolution Man " ) During the 1970s , the Ragman was defeated at Stonehenge . ( PROSE : " Rags " ) In 1976 , UNIT fought Vardan s at Stonehenge , where the Seventh Doctor was captured by the Monk . ( PROSE : " No Future " ) During the 20th century Donna Noble visited Stonehenge on a schooltrip . She didn ' t learn much that day . She scoffed her packed lunch on the coach and spend the whole day being sick . After this she never touched a crab paste again . ( COMIC : " The Giant ' s Ring " ) 21st century . During the first seconds of 1 January 2000 , Stonehenge , along with the rest of the world , was nearly destroyed by the Eye of Harmony . ( TV : " Doctor Who " ) Stonehenge was among the Earth cultural items the Threshold had stolen and taken to the town of Wormwood on the Moon . ( COMIC : " Wormwood " ) Other information . Stonehenge was near the location of an opening to the Yssgaroth ' s universe . ( PROSE : " The Pit " )