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LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL.
REWARD CARD.
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STONEHENGE.
STONEHENGE is a great prehistoric structure on Salisbury
Plain.
It was built by the men of the Bronze age considerably
more than 2000 years ago. Some of the stones must have
been brought with vast labour from a distance. Most people
consider that it was a great Druidical Temple.
It consists of two circles of vast stones partly remaining
upright and partly lying prostrate, and which are about 14
feet high 7 feet broad, and 3 f et thick, weighing from 10
to 12 tons each, though some must exceed 30 tons in weight
and the two largest 70 tons each. The outer circle, of which
17 out of the 30 stones remain upright, is surrounded by a
trench, and separated by an interval 8 feet across from an
inner circle of smaller upright stones, within which are two
groups, having between them a large flat stone, termed the
altar; near this monument is a raised terrace with an artificial
flat surface termed a "Cursus".
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