Stonehenge
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Stonehenge - The Story of a Stone Circle
Around 9,000 years ago, communities of hunter-gatherers live all over the British Isles. One group of early Britons is inspired to erect a monument on Salisbury Plain. They dig pits in the ground and raise three feld tree trunks. The upright timbers may have resembled Native American totem paws. 3,000 years later, rising sea levels mean that water separates England from the rest of Europe. But Stonehenge has lost none of its charismatic power.
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