(1) It is an enormous earthwork henge, roughly 180m across, with a stone passage tomb at its centre.
(2) At 4.43am on 21 June, when the sun rises above the rolling plains of Wiltshire and, cloud willing, its rays come fingering their way through the grass to touch the mighty sarsens and bluestones of the Henge, it will be a moment of joy for all concerned: the battles of the past between druids, crusties, conservators, archaeologists, seers and sightseers are over – thousands of them will be there, ready to celebrate the dawn of a new age for the Neolithic.
(3) There were similar comments on Tan's Facebook page, with Bao Heng commenting : "These [Chinese] drivers don't deserve the same salary and benefits.
(4) The first grooved pottery, which is so distinctive of the era, was made here, for example, and the first henges – stone rings with ditches round them – were erected on Orkney.
(5) To detect the risk factors of low birth weight in the newborns, a case-control study was conducted in 5 Health Stations of Donge-heng District of Beijing from Sept 1985 to June 1986.
(6) They were joined by Drew Sherman of the Cook Islands and Brunei’s Mike Wong Mun Heng.
(7) Colombia confirms first three deaths of patients infected with Zika virus Read more The new work provides experimental evidence that once the virus reaches the developing brain, it can infect and harm cells that are key for further brain development, said Hengli Tang of Florida State University, a lead author of the work, which was released Friday by the journal Cell Stem Cell.
(8) I appreciate that the monument needs to be protected, and that a nominal sum could fairly be charged for the cost of a fence and a few guards, but £72 for a timed visit is clearly preposterous for those who are happy to walk from the perimeter, and simply want to wander round the stones, without buying a Henge in a Snowstorm (they don't really sell that, do they?)
(9) Of course, the Henge itself has been substantially remodelled over the centuries, never more so than during the last, when several stones were re-erected and lintels were replaced to form trilithons that hadn't been intact for a long time.
(10) In recent decades the pushing back of the dates for the various phases of Stonehenge's construction, together with extensive new evidence from digs at the nearby massive earthen henge at Durrington Walls, have contributed to a different sort of a narrative; and there's general archaeological consensus that this entire part of Wiltshire, from the huge earthworks at Avebury and Silbury Hill, stretching down the Avon to Woodhenge and Durrington Walls, and taking in the strange features known as the cursus and the Stonehenge Avenue (parallel earthwork ridges running for several kilometres) as well as scores of barrows (or burial mounds) constituted an integrated "sacred landscape".
Hent
Definition:
(p. p.) of Hent
(v. t.) To seize; to lay hold on; to catch; to get.