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Stonehenge
[ stohn-henj ]
noun
- a prehistoric monument on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England, consisting of a large circle of megaliths surrounding a smaller circle and four massive trilithons; dating to late Neolithic and early Bronze Age times (c1700–1200 b.c.) and believed to have been connected with a sun cult or used for astronomical observations.
Stonehenge
/ ˌstəʊnˈhɛndʒ /
noun
- a prehistoric ruin in S England, in Wiltshire on Salisbury Plain: constructed over the period of roughly 3000–1600 bc ; one of the most important megalithic monuments in Europe; believed to have had religious and astronomical purposes
Stonehenge
- Ancient circles of large, upright stones that stand alone on a plain in England . There is some controversy about who shaped, carried, and set up these huge stones, which perhaps had religious and astronomical uses. Scholars theorize that Stonehenge was built in three phases beginning in about 2800 b.c. The huge stones are believed to date from 1800 to 1500 b.c.
Word History and Origins
Origin of Stonehenge1
Example Sentences
If Parker Pearson’s team is right, then ancient population movements out of Wales explain why bluestones at Stonehenge came from far away.
That’s roughly a few hundred years or less before work began at Stonehenge.
That’s another way they’re much like the actual stones at Stonehenge.
His team describes Stonehenge’s sound in the October Journal of Archaeological Science.
That work includes sound measurements taken at what remains of Stonehenge today and at a Stonehenge replica in Washington state made of concrete blocks.
With the “11” thing, it just came out of improvisation—same with Stonehenge.
Later, we hiked up a picturesque trail to the Dovbush rocks, which are a sort of local Stonehenge.
No one who visits Salisbury will forget Stonehenge, the most remarkable relic of prehistoric man to be found in Britain.
We went over a rather lonely and uninteresting road by the way of Amesbury, which is two miles from Stonehenge.
On his visit to England he was admitted fellow of the Royal society, and deserved it by his explication of Stonehenge.
This last precaution is the most valuable of all, and worth, as Stonehenge says, ten per cent.
The inner circle of Stonehenge consisted of five upstanding trilithons of which the stones came—by popular repute—from Ireland.
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