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Stonehenge

Date Submitted: 12/11/2000 08:36:39
Category: / History
Length: 2 pages (432 words)
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The word Stonehenge is though to have originated from the Anglo-Saxon period - the old English word ‘henge’ means hanging or gibbet. So the word Stonehenge would mean ‘hanging stones’ However, nowadays the word henge has a specific archeological meaning: a circular enclosure surrounding settings of stones and timber uprights, or pits. Stonehenge is thought to have been built over 5,000 years ago. Before Stonehenge was built, there used to be a forest of pines. Stonehenge …

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…development. If I was a teenager back when Stonehenge was built, I probably would have been doing nothing really. I might of helped the people digging the ditches. But I wouldn’t really be of no help. I might of been helping my parents with our farm our hanging out with my friends. I wouldn’t be at school as well. I wouldn’t see the Sandstones being raised, I ‘d be dead by now

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