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• Sarsen — stones are stone blocks found in quantity on Salisbury Plain, the Marlborough Downs, in Kent, and in smaller quantities in Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Dorset and Hampshire. They are the remains of a cap of tertiary sandstone which once covered much… …   Wikipedia

• Countless Stones — The Countless Stones, also known as Little Kit s Coty House, is the name of the remains of a Neolithic chambered long barrow on Blue Bell Hill near Aylesford in the English county of Kent. The site is one of the Medway megaliths. Their name comes …   Wikipedia

• Station Stones — The Station Stones are elements of the prehistoric monument of Stonehenge.Originally there were four stones, resembling the four corners of a rectangle that straddles the inner sarsen circle, set just inside Stonehenge s surrounding bank. Two… …   Wikipedia

• Stonehenge — Infobox World Heritage Site WHS = Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites State Party = flag|United Kingdom Type = Cultural Criteria = i, ii, iii ID = 373 Region = Europe Year = 1986 Session = 10th Link =… …   Wikipedia

• Stonehenge — /stohn henj/, n. a prehistoric monument on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England, consisting of a large circle of megaliths surrounding a smaller circle and four massive trilithons; dating to late Neolithic and early Bronze Age times (c1700 1200… …   Universalium

• STONEHENGE, ENGLAND —    Stonehenge is perhaps the best known example of Neolithic ceremonial architecture in Europe. Constructed as a henge, or circle, of massive, megalithic stones in the center of the Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, and dated to around 3100… …   Historical Dictionary of Architecture

• Lockeridge — infobox UK place country = England official name= Lockeridge population= 1,649 latitude= 51.4080 longitude= 1.7864 civil parish=Fyfield and West Overton shire district= Kennet shire county=Wiltshire region= South West England constituency… …   Wikipedia

• Prehistoric Orkney — refers to a period in the human occupation of the Orkney archipelago of Scotland that was the latter part of these islands prehistory. The period of prehistory prior to occupation by the genus Homo is part of the geology of Scotland. Although… …   Wikipedia

• Great Tottington — is a moated manor farm near Maidstone in the English county of Kent. It is also the site of a spring, around which are scattered numerous sarsen stones which may be the remains of a Neolithic monument and part of the Medway megaliths. Further… …   Wikipedia

• Chestnuts long barrow — The Chestnuts long barrow is a Neolithic chambered long barrow near Addington in the English county of Kent. It is one of a group of monuments known as the Medway megaliths. The tomb was built in an area of extensive earlier Mesolithic activity… …   Wikipedia

• Cossington, Kent — Cossington is a small farm settlement on Blue Bell Hill north of Maidstone in the English county of Kent. It is the site of a spring and also the site of a now lost group of sarsen stones thought to possibly be the remains of a Neolithic… …   Wikipedia