stonehenge - Presentation Outline

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Before the Saxon invasions,

the Celts lived in England.

There were people before the

Celts came.

They left archaeological evidence.

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a circle of great stones



bluestones



Stonehenge

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The archaeologists tell us that Stonehenge was not all built at one time. The oldest parts of Stonehenge are about 5,000 years old. The “bluestones” came about 1000 years later, and the great circle of stones a few hundred years after that. The great stones probably came from a place about 40km away. They each weigh about 25 tonnes. Experts say that perhaps 500 men pulled each stone, while 100 more placed logs on the ground for the stone to roll over. The “bluestones” are even more remarkable – they are much smaller, about 4 tonnes each, but they come from Preseli in south Wales, a distance of nearly 400 km. How did they get to Stonehenge? Maybe people carried them on small boats, over the sea and along rivers.

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a religious temple?

a centre of political power?

a place to celebrate the dead?

a place to be cured?

a place to forecast eclipses?

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