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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About STONEHENGE But Were too Shy to Ask

Tony Robinson's Cunningcast

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Stonehenge and the Myth of Merlin

Stonehenge is home to over a hundred stones, says Professor Mike Boulden. There are 30 of what would have been an original 30 in the outer south and circle but they're not all there. We've got 15 trilithons - two uprights and the lintel on top of those so it's so cold. It's not actually a slaughter stone it's just a stone that's fallen over and got a flat surface. The Welsh stones which come from Priselli could be equivalent to 80 sarsans. Let me just stop you for a minute because you've used this word a couple of times what is a sarsan?

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