Stonehenge
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Above picture: Stonehenge as seen from the north barrow, Wiltshire County, England. The stone circle was built about 2500 B.C. by a non-writing culture and is composed of earthworks surrounding a circular setting of large standing stones with several hundred burial mounds. Among its many suggested functions are that it may have served as: an astronomical observatory, a religious site, a domain of the dead, or a place of healing. It has also been connected to Arthurian legend.
Above picture: Another view of the megaliths that compose Stonehenge.
Above picture: The Standing Stones of Callanish, on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland, date to between 2900 and 2600 B.C. Standing stone circles are found throughout the British Isles
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