Stonehenge

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Awe
Mystery
Fascination
Fear

• Ancient, ancient, ancient, and even more ancient.
  If you ever go to Stonehenge, you will love
  every minute of it.

Grandeur
Unreachability
Unknowability
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• Barrows are ancient burial chambers. There are
  two main types of barrows long barrows, built in
  the Neolithic Period (4000 BCE - 2500BCE) and
  round barrows, built in the Bronze Age.

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• The first stage of construction at Stonehenge,
  when it was just the Bank and Ditch , goes back
  to the time of the long barrows. However,
  Stonehenge IV, the "version" that is most famous
  today, was built at a time when the round barrows
  were on the decline.

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• In Stonehenge's Vicinity
• Long Barrows Long Barrows can be found in Wessex
  and Sussex, and also in Lincolnshire and
  Yorkshire.

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• Excavation shows that the person was kept above
  ground for a time, perhaps on top of a platform,
  until others died, and the bodies could be put in
  the barrow and the barrow covered over with
  earth.

The Entrance to West Kennet Long Barrow
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• They were used for the burial of important
  people.

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• Round Barrows Round barrows, built at the time
  of Stonehenge IV, also surround the area of
  Stonehenge. In fact, within the Henge's Bank and
  Ditch are two round barrows.

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• There are four types of barrows bowl, bell,
  pond, and disc.
• As with the long barrows, round ones only housed
  important People.

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• Buried in these barrows often had their
  possessions about them daggers, bronze maces,
  stone battle-axes, in the graves of the men, and
  in the graves of women, bead necklaces and other
  ornaments.

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• Originally bodies were buried in a crouched
  position, but later bodies were cremated

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• Stonehenge was probably built by the Swiss,
  Germans, and Austrians.
• It has been dated back to 2800 BC and the kings
  grave 2300 hundred so maybe not?

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