| | Stonehenge -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | It is composed of (An earthen rampart) earthworks surrounding a circular setting of large standing stones, known as (Memorial consisting of a very large stone forming part of a prehistoric structure (especially in western Europe)) megaliths. |
 | | There is some debate about the age of the (Click link for more info and facts about stone circle) stone circle, but most (An anthropologist who studies prehistoric people and their culture) archaeologists think that it was mainly constructed between 2500 BC and 2000 BC. |
 | | Within the outer edge of the enclosed area was dug a circle of 56 pits (13), known as (Click link for more info and facts about Aubrey holes) Aubrey holes after (Click link for more info and facts about John Aubrey) John Aubrey, the seventeenth century antiquarian who was thought to have first identified them. |
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