How To Use Stonehenge In A Sentence
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Begun in about 3100 B.C. and altered during the next two millennia, Stonehenge incorporates outsize monoliths quarried far from its site on Salisbury Plain in southern England.
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The circle of stones at Stonehenge is thought to have originally been a temple.
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Stonehenge is one of the world's best known monuments of the ancient times.
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The ditch around Stonehenge would have been dug using animal bones and deer antlers to loosen the underlying chalk.
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Who wants to listen to ‘Stairway to Heaven’ for that silly hippies-in-Stonehenge twaddle about bustling hedgerows?
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Read in studio Stone circles like Stonehenge attract thousands of visitors each year drawn by the excitement of the ancient and unknown.
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Stonehenge is perhaps the most famous prehistoric monument in the world.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ironically, it is the newly-paved and sprawling five-lane thoroughfares clogged with sightseeing families and truckers laded down with ever more consumer items to choke our landfills, that has over the decades made Cadillac Ranch the Texan Stonehenge for sight-seers and graffiti enthusiasts eager to leave their mark of existence.
G. Roger Denson: You Say You Want a Revolution. Well You Know, Art Can Cure You of That
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Meanwhile, there is strong evidence that humans erected Stonehenge, just like humans have erected many other lithic monuments.
A Disclaimer for Behe?
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Stonehenge's sarsen stones phase is likely just one of many from this later period of the monument's use and demonstrates that it was still very much a domain of the dead, Parker Pearson said in a statement.
Science Project
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When thinking of Celtic religion, the first thing that comes to ones mind is generally Druidism, and maybe even Stonehenge.
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Recent excavations suggest Durrington Walls closely mirrored Stonehenge, having its own impressive standing circle made of timber and an avenue that linked it to the River Avon.
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The circle of stones at Stonehenge is thought to have originally been a temple.
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The implications for ancient engineering works aren't lost on him, and he has used his techniques to raise Stonehenge-style trilithons.
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Hundreds of hippies converge on Stonehenge to celebrate the summer solstice.
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Lend us that pightle, and receive our thanks; ‘twould be a favour, though not much to grant: we neither ask for Stonehenge nor for Tempe.’
Lavengro
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Stonehenge is perhaps the most famous prehistoric monument in the world.
Times, Sunday Times
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They were able to persuade people that Stonehenge should be a place of reverence and respect, and to deal with the tiny group of people who felt compelled to climb up the stones without creating a riot.
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After the ill-fated attempt to drag it to Stonehenge, the notorious bluestone has finally reached its new home on the back of a lorry.
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• A photograph used to illustrate an article about stargazing was wrongly captioned as showing "a meteor storm over Stonehenge".
Corrections and clarifications
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With Stonehenge, it looks like other human lithic monuments, sculpted (with chisel marks perhaps), but long before humans existed.
After thoughts on Barr
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Perfect blocking turned the stage's perimeters and centers into a spacious feline demimonde through which to enact a spiritual ceremony that felt like a combination of West Side Story, Woodstock, and Stonehenge.
James Scarborough: "Cats," Musical Theatre West
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It includes important early accounts of such major monuments as Stonehenge and Hadrian's Wall.
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Your itinerary includes a visit to Stonehenge.
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The open grassland around Stonehenge in southern England used to be a favorite haunt of the bird.
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The three banked and ditched circular enclosures or henges are scheduled ancient monuments and rival the World Heritage site Stonehenge.
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The tenuous suggestion that Stonehenge may thus be a sepulchral monument, is perhaps strengthened by the large number of burial mounds in the surrounding landscape.
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One does not need Stonehenge to know when to plant seeds or when to breed cattle.
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The ancient religious rituals in Stonehenge would certainly have involved torches and fires.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is no easy way to carve stone or whittle wood or mould clay or build Stonehenge.
Times, Sunday Times
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A team of archaeologists from Sheffield University have revealed significant new insights into the role of Stonehenge after discovering a prehistoric ceremonial road.
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There is still a good way to go before a really coherent scheme for presenting Stonehenge to its many visitors is achieved, and time is pressing.
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We may dig, study, and scrutinize every part of Stonehenge, but we will never know all of the secrets of the ancient megalith known as Stonehenge.
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Stonehenge is the remnant of a chiefdom, which is what you get with the invention of agriculture: multi-village polity with centralized rule.
Robert Wright on optimism
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On retirement Joe Darling returned to the midlands of Tasmania and to ‘Stonehenge’.
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Turning up late for the summer-solstice party at Stonehenge in 2001, he found the only stragglers left were folksy types in horse-drawn wagons.
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Read in studio Stone circles like Stonehenge attract thousands of visitors each year drawn by the excitement of the ancient and unknown.
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Later accounts held that the Druids made Stonehenge, where they supposedly practiced human sacrifice.
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When I did, it was to be tossed in a blanket, so that, though elevated, my survey was hasty and superficial; but I suspect that the entire furniture to which a colleger lays claim, is his bed and bureau, tables and chairs being here as much out of keeping (if they could be kept at all) as at Stonehenge.
Confessions of an Etonian
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This construction, despite often being called the Yorkshire Stonehenge, is a reproduction, circa 1820.
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The 400 mile round trip was broken up with a stop at Stonehenge for an ice-cream.
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Zach: With Stonehenge, it looks like other human lithic monuments, sculpted (with chisel marks perhaps), but long before humans existed.
After thoughts on Barr
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Later on, outside, after winking at me (the man looked good in a coat and scarf [hey, with boys, is it called a muffler?], people) Ward quoted the "Stonehenge" speech to me from "Spinal Tap" because of my cape.
Anne-jumps Diary Entry
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The ancient religious rituals in Stonehenge would certainly have involved torches and fires.
Times, Sunday Times
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I had heard that the megaliths at Stonehenge could be seen from a great distance and one would be overwhelmed as one approached closer.
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As I said, Stonehenge is only one of many lithic monuments made by humans.
A Disclaimer for Behe?
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Building a longer tunnel under Stonehenge is the only way of reunifying the World Heritage site, an Amesbury couple told the inquiry.
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We took a helicopter ride over Stonehenge!
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Cream teas, ten-pin bowling and a visit to Stonehenge are just some of the experiences planned for a group of exchange students due to visit Trowbridge next week.
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A Swindon engineering company is taking a lead role in the design of a road tunnel beneath 5,000-year-old Stonehenge.
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Stonehenge seems to have fizzled out, more with a whimper than a bang.
BRITAIN BC: Life In Britain and Ireland before the Romans
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It is now regarded as the nation's most complete Cold War relic, and three years ago was given the same protection as Stonehenge as a scheduled monument.
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Archaeologists have unearthed a ‘mini-Stonehenge’ in Greater Manchester, England, which dates back to about 5,000 years.
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The tenuous suggestion that Stonehenge may thus be a sepulchral monument, is perhaps strengthened by the large number of burial mounds in the surrounding landscape.
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The ancient religious rituals in Stonehenge would certainly have involved torches and fires.
Times, Sunday Times
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Many are even turning back to much older beliefs such as druidism, which still manages to attract hundreds of its gowned adherents to Stonehenge to celebrate the summer solstice every year.
A Question of Faith
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The long axis of the structure at Woodhenge points to the entrance into the henge; like Stonehenge, the whole site is orientated towards the rising midsummer sun.
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Stonehenge is perhaps the most famous prehistoric monument in the world.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Druids, whose Stonehenge temples can be seen in England, regarded mistletoe with reverence and used to burn it in sacrifice during the solstitial festivities.
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For the remainder of the 1930s its members continued to hold services either at Stonehenge or Normanton Gorse, but in July rather than at midsummer.
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A concept album about Stonehenge must surely be the next step.
Times, Sunday Times
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The late watercolour of Stonehenge, with a louring sky relieved by a double rainbow, is one of his most dramatic illustrations of this idea.
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Lend us that pightle, and receive our thanks; 'twould be a favour, though not much to grant: we neither ask for Stonehenge nor for Tempe. '
George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends
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The mysteriousness of Stonehenge is on par with how peanuts and corn "recombine" in poop.
GLADIATOR OF STONEHENGE FLICKS
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THOUSANDS of pagans heading to Stonehenge for the summer solstice face a grey weekend.
The Sun
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The misshapen monoliths were assembled down the side of a slight hill in the countryside beyond the town, not in a circle like Stonehenge, but staggered.
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It is thought that Stonehenge was built using slave labour.
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The Archer lived four and a half thousand years ago, about the time of the first construction at Stonehenge three miles from his grave.
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Lend us that pightle, and receive our thanks; 'twould be a favour, though not much to grant: we neither ask for Stonehenge nor for
Lavengro the Scholar - the Gypsy - the Priest
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In December 1925, flying over Stonehenge at 2,000 feet in his single-seater Sopwith Snipe, he had spotted something in the corner of a field a couple of miles away: a large circle with oval rings of white spots in the centre.
Wildwood
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Andre frequently cited Stonehenge, which he visited on his first trip to Europe at age nineteen, as a seminal influence on his sculpture.
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In Avebury, as it was, can be found the early typic model of which Stonehenge is the final product.
Stonehenge Today and Yesterday
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Of course, "Stonehenge" is not really the monument it was at its building (whether by Merlin or under the influence of Aliens or as a burial ground), much less in its "original" usage -- rather, "Stonehenge" is a kind of shorthand, by which we mean all the things which intervened, the multiplicities of usages and all the "theories" about its origins that exist in the intervening time.
Archive 2008-06-01
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Robin Heath has explained how the Aubrey holes, the first phase of Stonehenge, were used to predict eclipses and has done much work generally in helping us understand ancient archeoastronomy in relation to stone circles.
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There is no easy way to carve stone or whittle wood or mould clay or build Stonehenge.
Times, Sunday Times
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Not only is the construction different from Stonehenge (thereby avoiding invidious comparison), but it is also a precursor.
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LONDON – A wealthy young teenager buried near Britain's mysterious Stonehenge monument came from the Mediterranean hundreds of miles away, scientists said Wednesday, proof of the site's importance as a travel destination in prehistoric times.
Stonehenge Skeleton Proves Site's Prehistoric Importance
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Our ancestors from times immemorial used this prehistory track as they travelled with their flocks and it is thought to have been the route taken by the early travellers to Stonehenge.
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Lengthening shadows cast by giant stone structures, like obelisks or the pillars of Stonehenge, were used by ancient civilizations to measure time.
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megalithic monuments like Stonehenge
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This week a New Ager and self-titled Druid named King Arthur Pendragon called for the cessation of scientific studies on human remains excavated from Stonehenge and immediate reburial of the skeletons.
Druids, New Agers and Archaeologists
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From the Stonehenge thread: chodin writes – "gladiator" is an anagram for: "i add lotr g" – to put it in context, there’s two black dudes sitting on a stoop …
COMMENTS OF THE WEEK… !
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At Stonehenge, 800,000 visitors are moved laterally within the circular path around the site.
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Stonehenge seems to have fizzled out, more with a whimper than a bang.
BRITAIN BC: Life In Britain and Ireland before the Romans
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Officially one of the great wonders of the ancient world, Stonehenge attracts a unique twenty thousand strong crowd of hippies, pagans, witches, Druids and travellers for the solstice every year.
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And as at dusk and dawn the great menhirs of Stonehenge fill with a mysterious, granitic life, seem to be praying priests of stone, so about these gathered hierophantic illusion.
The Metal Monster
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His activities in the field included excavation, digging into barrows around Stonehenge, and his fieldwork at Stonehenge and Avebury was published in two books in 1740 and 1743.
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• Sad news from Upper Bucklebury, childhood home of ma'am-to-be Kate Middleton: the minibus tours of the village and surroundings, taking in, among other formative locations, the church where she was baptised, the car park of her alma mater Marlborough, the Spar corner shop and, perplexingly, Stonehenge, have been cancelled.
Esther Addley's Diary
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To me they are as mysterious and seemingly symbolic as Stonehenge, marking some unknown ley line along the mountains, silently turning, facing the wind.
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Concerning the hypothesis that Stonehenge was made by humans, we can compare it to other human-made lithic monuments, look for evidence of human manufacture, seek signs of human habitation, determine whether humans had the means and opportunity, etc.
After thoughts on Barr
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Read in studio Stone circles like Stonehenge attract thousands of visitors each year drawn by the excitement of the ancient and unknown.
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These are burial mounds of Bronze Age date, many from about 2000 BC to 1500 BC and they cluster in their hundreds around the Stonehenge area.
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Stonehenge still exerts a powerful fascination over people, but on none more than the officials of English Heritage, who are responsible for its care.
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The Preseli Hills, source of the Stonehenge bluestones, lie within one of the highly radiogenic areas in which the ‘Boscombe Bowmen’ were born.
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I did not intend to include stone circles, dolmens or long stone rows, although some are represented (not Avebury or Stonehenge).
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Scientists are already facing the prospect of having to rebury a horde of human bone fragments, the remains of more than 50 individuals, that were excavated in 2008 at a site known as Aubrey Hole 7, which is part of the Stonehenge Riverside Project.
Burial law is threatening archaeological research, say experts
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The indoor table top games, such as treasure hunts and building Stonehenge, are aimed at improving management and team building skills.
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After the ill-fated attempt to drag it to Stonehenge, the notorious bluestone has finally reached its new home on the back of a lorry.
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THOUSANDS of pagans heading to Stonehenge for the summer solstice face a grey weekend.
The Sun
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While many monuments consist of separate stones raised on end as menhirs, stone circles (as at Stonehenge), and avenues (as seen at Carnac, in France), the same technique was often used in walling chambers.
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You may want to take a look at the interesting sarsen stones in front of the house (the same stones used to build part of Stonehenge).
Enjoy the Ride
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The run-down ones stand out stark and skeletonized, yet still meaningful and inspirited like the collected rocks of Stonehenge and the exposed walls of Indian ruins.
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From a distance Hughes Henge appears to be a simple, stylized image of Stonehenge.
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Our forebears lived and died here from the end of the last ice age to the time of Stonehenge itself.
Times, Sunday Times
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If he had read his sources with attention, he would know that the embanked circles containing rings of pits, which I mentioned as parallels to Stonehenge I, have nothing whatever to do with the hill-top enclosures ( "causewayed camps") which were until recently interpreted as cattle-pounds.
Stonehenge
