Stonehenge
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Stonehenge - A History of Stonehenges
The last thing that happens structurally is in about 1600 BC. That's 1400 years after the ditch was dug, 900 years after the stones were put up. And then after that, because society changes, you see the landscape around their change from one of burial and ceremony to a more normal landscape. So really, it seems to sort of slip into sort of obscurity then for the rest of prehistory. There's no evidence of it being used in terms of things being deposited there. Weirdly, there's a lot more Roman activity than we thought a few years ago,. Because the lost excavation in the stones back in 2008 produced an awful lot of Roman material - possibly even moving some of the
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