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ffiffi*tl|T.ffii# Worl< in pairs. Lool< at the photos. Do you l<now: Worl< in pairs. What in your opinion are the two most
interesting pieces of information in the text? Tel[ your partner
a where it is?
b how old it is? and explain your choices.
c why itwas buitt?
$d fnCO Listen to a radio report about Stonehenge. Answer
Read the text about Stonehenge. Did you find the answers to the questions.
"d;
any ofthe questions in exercise 1?
1 In what way does Stonehenge appear to function as a
calendar?
2 What l<ind of peopte are gathered today at Stonehenge?
3 What do the owners of the site a[[owvisitors to do on the
Ftonshgngc is a Neoritnic monument so Isti ces?
situated near Salisbury in southern England. At first, it was 4 How does attendance at the winter solstice compare with
just a circular bank and ditch, about 110 m in diameter, that at the summer solstice?
within which stood another circle of upright wooden posts. 5 What l<inds of crop did the people who buitt Stonehenge
Radiocarbon dating on deer antlers used to dig the ditch grow, and what kinds of animal did they raise?
reveal that it was consiructed between 3000 and 2920 BC. 6 What does George thinl< their feelings would have been
By about 2500 BC huge stones started to arrive, the
on the shortest day of the year?
largest of which weigh over 40 tonnes. The amazing thing
7 What reasons does George give for his celebrating the
is that these stones were brought from two sites: one 30
winter solstice?
km away, the other an astonishing 24a km away, in Wales.
There is no doubt about their origin: the mineral composition :li ry,i:liiitillf} Worl< in pairs. Discuss these questions.
of the stones can be matched precisely. But how were they
1 Would you tike to visit Stonehenge? Give reasons.
transpoded such enormous distances? lt is thought that
2 What do you thinl< of people who stilt celebrate the
they were brought by boat and then dragged across the land
solstices at Stonehenge?
on rollers. They were arranged in a circle and capped with
3 Do you know of any other ancient monuments whose
horizontal stones. Only seventeen of the original stones are
origin or purpose is still a mystery? Describe them.
still standing, with five horizontal stones in place.
The arrival of these stones marked a period of 800 years
of construction and alteration stretching into the Bronze Age,
when the first metal tools and weapons were made. By this unanswered questions have
time Stonehenge was the largest and probably the most inspired people through the
impodant monument in Britain, but it was just one parl of a ages to make up their
remarkable ancient landscape. lt is surrounded by hundreds own stories to explain
of burial mounds and a number of smaller ceremonial sites. Stonehenge, from
The most remarkable burial is the skeleton of a man of about medieval my.ths of
30, found surrounded by flint arrowheads. magic, to the Victorian
Archaeologists know that he met a violent death because theory that it was built
the missing tips of the arrowheads were found embedded by Celtic Druids. But it is
in his bones, But he was carefully buried, and is believed to archaeology and modern
have been either a warrior who died in battle, or possibly a science that provide the best
human sacrifice. hope o{ unlocking the mysteries
Stonehenge was finally abandoned in 1500 BC, but of Stonehenge.
just as no one knows for sure why it was built, and what it
was used for, no one knows why it fell into disuse. These

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