Crossword clues for stonehenge
stonehenge
- Cook goes with net to catch chicken in ancient monument
- Wiltshire landmark
- Wiltshire attraction
- Whole chicken gets cooked outside tourist site
- Ancient monument
- Wiltshire monument
- Prehistoric monument in England
- Tourist attraction on England's Salisbury Plain
- Salisbury sight
- Prehistoric construct
- Megalithic monument on Salisbury Plain
- Comically undersized prop in "This is Spinal Tap"
- Classic British rock group
- British prehistoric rock pile
- British megalithic monument
- British landmark auctioned off in 1915
- Salisbury Plain attraction
- Wiltshire wonder
- Site near an outdoor recording session in "Help!"
- Site of an annual British music festival
- *English rock group?
- Ancient, mystifying construction in England
- Monument on Salisbury Plain
- Neolithic mystery
- Salisbury Plain monument
- Ancient British monument
- World Heritage Site that's more than 4,000 years old
- Ancient circular arrangement on Salisbury Plain
- Sight on Salisbury Plain
- Prehistoric ruin in England
- Monument gets rebuilt without a single layer
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stonehenge \Stone"henge\, n. An assemblage of upright stones with others placed horizontally on their tops, on Salisbury Plain, England, -- generally supposed to be the remains of an ancient Druidical temple.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 12c., Stanenges, literally "stone gallows," perhaps so called from fancied resemblance to old-style gallows with two posts, with the second element related to the verb hang. Some antiquarians suggest the notion may be of "supported in the air, that which hangs in the air" (compare henge-clif for Latin præruptum), in reference to the lintel stones, but the order of the elements and the inflection is against this. An ancient name for it was the Giant's Dance.
Wikipedia
Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument in Wiltshire, England, west of Amesbury and north of Salisbury. Stonehenge's ring of standing stones are set within earthworks in the middle of the most dense complex of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments in England, including several hundred burial mounds.
Archaeologists believe it was constructed from 3000 BC to 2000 BC. The surrounding circular earth bank and ditch, which constitute the earliest phase of the monument, have been dated to about 3100 BC. Radiocarbon dating suggests that the first bluestones were raised between 2400 and 2200 BC, although they may have been at the site as early as 3000 BC.
Stonehenge has been a legally protected Scheduled Ancient Monument since 1882 when legislation to protect historic monuments was first successfully introduced in Britain. The site and its surroundings were added to UNESCO's list of World Heritage Sites in 1986. Stonehenge is owned by the Crown and managed by English Heritage; the surrounding land is owned by the National Trust.
Stonehenge could have been a burial ground from its earliest beginnings. Deposits containing human bone date from as early as 3000 BC, when the ditch and bank were first dug, and continued for at least another five hundred years.
Stonehenge is an ancient stone monument in England.
Stonehenge may also refer to:
Stonehenge is the first anthology board game. It was released in June 2007 by Paizo Publishing under their Titanic Games imprint. Five game designers, Richard Garfield, Richard Borg, James Ernest, Bruno Faidutti, and Mike Selinker, were given the same set of game materials and each created their own game using those components.
An expansion, titled Stonehenge: Nocturne, was released later in 2007 with developers Andrew Looney, Klaus-Jürgen Wrede, Serge Laget, and Bruno Cathala adding their games to the anthology.
Stonehenge is a novel in which historical novelist Bernard Cornwell imaginatively reconstructs the events of forty centuries ago, when the prehistoric site of what is now called Stonehenge was ambitiously rebuilt, with stone monoliths replacing wooden poles.
The plot, from beginning to end:
The main characters of the novel are Saban and Camaban, the young sons of Hengall, tribal chief of Ratharryn. They both outsmart their enemies and survive attempts to kill them. Their main enemy is their older half-brother, Lengar, an ambitious and bloodthirsty man. When an outsider rides into the Old Temple of the tribe, Lengar mercilessly murders him and steals his gold. Lengar then attempts to also murder his younger half-brother Saban, so there will be no witnesses to Lengar's theft of the gold. Lengar plans to use the gold to raise an army and make himself into a power in the land. However, the quick-witted and quick-footed Saban outwits and outruns his brother. Hengall forces Lengar to give up the stolen gold. A disgruntled Lengar defects from the tribe with most of his friends, plotting to return to kill his own father and attack his own former tribesfolk.
Before he is killed by Lengar, Hengall invests some of the gold in rebuilding and improving the Sky Temple. All three of his sons get a turn at reshaping this famous center of worship.
The monument is called "The Old Temple" in the novel. Indeed, at the time of the events, it was already a thousand years old, having been created 3000 BC as a circular ditch and bank, with 56 wooden posts.
Lengar becomes chief and sells Saban into slavery. Camaban frees his brother and tells Saban about his plans for a new temple. Saban marries the Sun Bride, but because of their different opinions and status, they slowly fall apart. Together they replace Lengar. Camaban becomes chief, but Saban kills him to protect his daughter. But Saban's daughter gets sacrificed and the Sun Bride, who became Camaban's lover, dies. Saban remarries again, but he still visits his first wife before Lengar killed Hengall. Saban becomes chief.
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Stonehenge is a 1970 album by folk rock musician Richie Havens.
Stonehenge is the second album by Ruins, released in 1990 through Shimmy Disc.
The Stonehenge is a residential apartment building on Boulevard East in the Woodcliff section of North Bergen, New Jersey in the United States. Situated adjacent to North Hudson Park, the building was constructed in 1967 during a high-rise building spree and at is among the tallest buildings in the area. The 34-story building has 356 apartments and 5 levels of indoor parking.
Stonehenge, also known as Stone Cottage or High House, is a historic summer estate house on Windmill Hill Road in Dublin, New Hampshire. The 2-1/2 story shingle style house was built in 1889 by F. W. Stevens for Martha Parsons, the daughter of a wealthy Boston merchant, and was the first in a series of summer properties built in the area by the Parsons family. The house features massive fieldstone chimneys, fully shingled upper stories, and eyebrow dormers in the rear roof. The property was acquired in 1953 by Frank McKenna, who separated a wing of the house, and moved it down the hill to the road, where it stands as the McKenna Cottage.
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
Usage examples of "stonehenge".
Ancestors of Mott and Strabismus had chosen opposing sides in Assyria and at Stonehenge.
Using her committee expense account, Penny rented a sports car, and in it they explored the glorious countryside: Salisbury, Winchester, Plymouth, the Hardy country, the prim majesty of Bath, and the spot that moved John most deeply, that circle of massive monoliths at Stonehenge, for when he saw this mysterious relic of four thousand years he imagined himself one of the ancient astronomers who oriented it, and he insisted that they wait there among the rolling hills until the evening stars appeared, so that he could check the accuracy with which the great stones were aligned.
He begins walking around the house, looking it over in a new light: the Stonehenge walls, the Klimt tilework, the open rooms.
Now it is quite clear--though you have perhaps never thought of it--that if the next generation of Englishmen consisted wholly of Julius Caesars, all our political, ecclesiastical, and moral institutions would vanish, and the less perishable of their appurtenances be classed with Stonehenge and the cromlechs and round towers as inexplicable relics of a bygone social order.
It seems these gypsies do quite a business here every summer, selling astrological profiles to the tourists who come to see the ruins of Stonehenge.
Britt, it seems to me that those gypsies are probably part of some computerized coven that is using the Stonehenge ruins for worship .
Assyrians had known and the men at Stonehenge and Albert Einstein: that man and all his doings and his Earth and his Sun and his Galaxy are held in interlocking responsibilities which operate beyond the farthest reaches of the mind.
There are only a few left in Europe, places like Stonehenge and an old crypt in Aachen, but the Pacific Northwest has many, which is why Tir Tairngire is situated where it is, as I am sure you have guessed.
High above the equator of Mars, as Carter Jahns and Philippe Brach departed the New Stonehenge, Annie Pohaku sat under the glass-roofed promenade of Phobos University.
Any number of devout enthusiasts, annual Stonehenge and Ave-bury Pilgrims, Quacks, Mongers, Bedlamites, each has his tale of real flights over the countryside, above these Ley-lines.
By riding cross-country from one great monument to the next, a man could follow the ancient ley lines Myrddin's Druidic instructors had named the "dragon lines," conduits of energy that wound, braidlike, through the region, touching such places as Caer-Aveburis and Stonehenge, where immense circles of standing stones had sat since the beginning of time, erected by a people so ancient, not even the Druids could recall their names.
At cockroach level, we can hear the captive harpist make music as the titans lift forks of butterflied lamb chop, each bite the size of a whole pig, each mouth a tearing Stonehenge of ivory.
Stonehenge may very well be the first archaeological site anywhere that has taken advantage of aerial photography.
While he instructed his machines with the program for the meeting small, shivering men hewed blue stone into menhirs to form Stonehenge.
Neither of Miss Wychwood's youthful guests, both reared from birth in the strictest canons of propriety, returned any answer to this speech, but they exchanged speaking glances, and young Mr Elmore demanded of Miss Carleton, in an undervoice, what the deuce Stonehenge had to say to anything?