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	Woodhenge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Woodhenge is a Neolithic Class I henge and timber circle monument located to the North of Amesbury in Wiltshire, England, and it is closer to Amesbury than is Stonehenge.
		This sort of timber would have weighed around 5 tonnes and prompted similar logistical problems as the erection of the bluestones at Stonehenge.
		Further comparisons with Stonehenge were quickly noticed by Cunnington; both have entrances oriented approximately on the midsummer sunrise and the diameters of the timber circles at Woodhenge and the stone circles at Stonehenge are similar making the reasons for the name more understandable.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Woodhenge (434 words)

	Woodhenge - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Woodhenge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Woodhenge, which possibly predates Stonehenge, may form a peripheral part of a greater complex centred on the nearby henge monument of Durrington Walls.
		This large circular earthwork, with a bank and ditch about 450 m/1,500 ft in diameter, probably contained several structures similar to Woodhenge.
		The site of Woodhenge was one of the first to be discovered by aerial photography in 1925.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Woodhenge (166 words)

	Woodhenge: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Cahokia was a native american city located near collinsville in west-central illinois, across the mississippi river from saint louis, missourist....
		Woodhenge is a Neolithic[Click link for more facts about this topic] Class I henge henge quick summary:
		A henge is a circular or sub-circular prehistoric enclosure defined by a raised circular bank, and a circular ditch usually running inside the bank....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/w/wo/woodhenge.htm (1208 words)

	RiverWeb:AmBot:PreHist:Technology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		This fact indicates that the woodhenge, a circle of large poles used to track celestial bodies and seasonal events, was in place before the construction of Mound 72.
		What is most intriguing is that the post mold found under the oldest part of the mound nearest the elite individual (laid to rest on a bed of shell beads), is the location of a timber that would have marked the summer solstice sunrise 400-500 years ago.
		The importance Mississippians place on woodhenges may also be reflected in their stylized depiction as part of the cross-in-a-circle motif on what appear to have been ceremonial beakers.
	www.museum.state.il.us /RiverWeb/landings/Ambot/prehistory/mississippian/technology/fac-cahokia-layout.html (264 words)

	WOODHENGE
		Revealed in excavations of early 1960 west of Monk’s Mound, the numerous large oval-shaped pits arranged in arcs of circles appeared be the Cahokian way of a sun calendar.
		Also called the ‘sun-circle’, each woodhenge consisted of large evenly spaced log poles – ranging in diameter from 240 feet to 480 feet - and probably enabled Cahokians to determine the changing seasons and different agricultural stages by tracking the sun’s movements.
		It is even suspected that the leaders “may have used Woodhenge to demonstrate their connection with the sun or some other mystic unknown, says Bruce Smith, director of the archaeobiology program and a curator at the Smithsonian Institution.” (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/daily/march/12/cahokia.htm 20.07.2001)
	www.bradley.edu /las/eng/lotm/Cahokia/WOODHENGE.htm (228 words)

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		Woodhenge, yes Woodhenge, is located 2 miles north of Amesbury in England on A345.
		The theory is that these holes represent a woodhenge similar to Stonehenge, however this could be wrong and these could have been supports for some sort of buildings, but it doesn't seem so, because of the placemen of the holes.
		It is believed that the priests could use the henge to observe the rising of the sun and that the whole structure was a sort of giant calendar that was used to calculate the seasons.
	aboutfacts.net /Ancient8.htm (556 words)

	Woodhenge at Cahokia Mounds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		After a summer of intense excavation, Dr. Warren Wittry was studying excavation maps when he observed that numerous large oval-shaped pits seemed to be arranged in arcs of circles.
		The last Woodhenge was only 12, or possible 13 posts, along the eastern sunrise arc(if it had been a complete circle, it would have had 72 posts).
		There have been suggestions some posts had alignments with certain bright stars or the moon, or were used in predicting eclipses, and others have suggested Woodhenge was used as an engineering "aligner" to determine mound placements, but none of this has been proven convincingly.
	www.cahokiamounds.com /woodhenge.html (626 words)

	Science4All
		Woodhenge is located at Cahokia Mounds Historical Site, not far from Collinsville in Illinois and within sight of the Arch.
		We know that there were at least five Woodhenges built in the same general location, one replacing another, and each circle had a different diameter and number of posts.
		The Woodhenge you see when you visit is a reconstruction of the third one; it has 48 posts and a center post, which stand about 20 feet tall, placed in the exact positions of the originals.
	www.jracademy.com /ISL/scienceMysteries.html (1117 words)

	Woodhenge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		For the want of a better name the investigators christened the new discovery 'Woodhenge', as this title seemed so appropriate it was adopted permanently.
		Woodhenge is signposted from the A345 road just north of Amesbury.
		A short distance from Woodhenge, it consisted of an outer bank that measured nearly 30 metres wide with an internal leveled berm that varied between 6 and 40 metres wide.
	www.this-is-amesbury.co.uk /woodhenge.html (589 words)

	Cahokia: A Pre-Columbian City in the Continental United States (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Of course, it seems inexorably the case that it is impossible for modern people to fully understand the social significance of such structures for Cahokians, but it is possible to conjecture upon their function.
		While it is entirely possible that Woodhenge, of which there is the largest most prominent versions, but smaller versions exist as well, served its function according to the motion of the moon or the sun, operating on either a lunar or solar calendar.
		What seems most possible is that Woodhenge served to mark dates in the calendar that were significant to the Cahokians for reasons unknown to us, but likely all important for the mound builders themselves.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /~jessed/project/woodhenge.html (248 words)

	The Christian Science Monitor \| csmonitor.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Whatever it had been, Woodhenge was probably connected with Cahokia, the sacred city of an Indian civilization that flourished at the time Woodhenge was constructed: AD 800-1200.
		At Woodhenge itself, archaeologists found a flat stone the size of a human hand that is engraved with straight lines arranged in angles and geometric shapes.
		But Woodhenge doesn't figure into the legends of the Missouri and Kansas tribes and has no other special significance to them, as far as is known.
	www.csmonitor.com /cgi-bin/wit_article.pl?tape/83/081847.txt (1532 words)

	The Stonehenge Project > Home > About Stonehenge > Archaeology Around ...
		Woodhenge lies about 3km (2 miles) to the north-east of Stonehenge.
		Built in about 2300 BC, it consisted of six concentric oval rings of posts surrounded by a circular bank and ditch, with an entrance gap in the north-north-east side.
		Woodhenge was probably a temple, a tribal meeting-place or a combination of both.
	www.thestonehengeproject.org /about/archaeology/woodhenge.shtml (112 words)

	RiverWeb:AmBot:PreHist:Technology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Fowler (1996) and Wittry (1996), among others for example, have noted that the alignment of posts within these woodhenges correspond to where the sun rose and/or set on the first days of equinoxes and solstices.
		He suggests that the associated woodhenge defined a sacred place on the Cahokia landscape.
		Mound 72 construction and interrment of high status individuals followed this definition of a sacred space with the woodhenge.
	www.museum.state.il.us /RiverWeb/landings/Ambot/prehistory/mississippian/technology/fac-woodhenges.html (207 words)

	(GCNM46) Woodhenge (Wiltshire) by The Wobbly Club (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Woodhenge in Wiltshire is open 365 days 24/7 and is looked after by English Heritage.
		Woodhenge is situated in the middle of Durrington Walls another Neolithic earthwork just north of the Market Town of Amesbury.
		To claim this cache please either post a photo of you and your GPSr in the middle of Woodhenge, or find the information plaque and email us what the last number on the scale of the map is, please do not enter this on your log.
	www.geocaching.com /seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=fcee0c79-526f-4e00-81fd-bd24031c87ef (752 words)

	ScienceDaily: Stonehenge
		Modern anthropological evidence has been used by Mike Parker Pearson and the Madagascan archaeologist Ramilisonina to suggest that timber was associated with the living and stone with the ancestral dead amongst prehistoric peoples.
		They have argued that Stonehenge was the terminus of a long, ritualised funerary procession for treating the dead, which began in the east, during sunrise at Woodhenge and Durrington Walls, moved down the Avon and then along the Avenue reaching Stonehenge in the west at sunset.
		A henge near Stonehenge containing concentric rings of postholes for standing timbers, discovered in 1922, was named Woodhenge by its excavators because of similarities with Stonehenge.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/stonehenge (6669 words)

	Woodhenge Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Woodhenge was discovered in 1925, from the air by Squadron-Leader G.S.M. Insall, a first world war pilot.
		He was flying a Sopwith Snipe near to Stonehenge when he saw 'a circle with white chalk marks in the centre'.
		Around it were three post-holes where six ovals of timber posts had stood, in a pattern which suggests the frame of a large timber building.
	home.freeuk.net /martin.morgan/woodhenge.htm (181 words)

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		The small and large end arcs would be struck from the ends of the common bases of the triangles whilst the larger side arcs would each be struck from the apex of the triangle on the opposite side of the design.
		Thom suggests that a fundamental motive behind the construction of Woodhenge was to display a progression of study into the rationalisation of pi.
		At Woodhenge we have a series of rings progressing in 20 MY multiples with each having a value of pi close to 3, the more heavily marked ring II being a perfect, (or near perfect), solution to the rationalising or integrating of pi.
	www.megalithicsites.co.uk /math6.html (2072 words)

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		Although it is situated in pleasant, rolling countryside a few miles from Stonehenge all that can be seen of its past is a jumble of short, concrete posts which mark the positions of the concentric rings of mighty tree trunks which once stood there.
		The name Woodhenge was given, partly in jest, to distinguish it from its neighbour Stonehenge and the name has stuck.
		The new information gained from the Sanctuary has now been applied to Woodhenge and the posts are now believed to be components of sun calendars aligned on midsummer sunrise, the first rays of which would have passed through the gap in the surrounding bank.
	www.britishdowsers.org /EEG_site/archive/articles/aub2001_issue23/Woodhenge_m.htm (1699 words)

	My Trip to England - Woodhenge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Having no clue what Woodhenge might be, it seemed the perfect place to go to next.
		Thus, the resemblence between Woodhenge and Stonehenge is that they both have these large circular ditches dug around them.
		So Woodhenge is a henge with structures made of wood, instead of rock, which have thus rotted away over the millenia.
	www.chironian.com /~barbara/woodh.htm (223 words)

	Woodhenge Timberframes - Home - Woodhenge Timberframes, Designers and builders
		Woodhenge is dedicated to the craft of designing and building timber frame homes, additions and commercial buildings.
		Using high quality oak timbers, and precision joinery that rivals fine furniture making, Woodhenge timberframes are built for the ages.
		Woodhenge Timberframes designs and builds only a few homes a year, allowing us to pay close attention to the finest details and providing you with the best home possible.
	www.woodhengetimberframes.com (105 words)

	BBC News \| Sci/Tech \| Woodhenge discovered near Stonehenge
		The down-to-earth evidence for a majestic former "woodhenge"
		One theory is that they were supports for a ritual building but they are much thicker and closer together than would have been needed to hold up a roof.
		The archaeologists believe they are more likely to have formed a free-standing "woodhenge".
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/sci/tech/434821.stm (330 words)

	Wiltshire's Mysterious Sites
		There have been few sightings in recent years but the town is still remembered in the annals of UFO lore.
		Woodhenge is much older than Stonehenge and is aligned to the Midsummer sunrise.
		The monument consisted of concentric rings of tall wooden posts and must have been an impressive sight when it was completed.
	www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk /england/wiltshire/wiltshire3.html (207 words)

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		Just inside the entry of the wine tasting room is a piece entitled "Woman in Tree" in which the entire truck of a fl walnut has been split open to reveal the feminine spirit hiding within.
		Omphalos is a Greek term which means 'belly button', and it serves as the central point through which all other observations at Woodhenge are meant to take place.
		Woodhenge, circa 2000 AD At some point this construction was dismantled and work began on the final phase of the site.
	www.athenasweb.com /Woodhenge.html (1036 words)

	Woodhenge Timberframes Profile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Woodhenge timberframes designs and builds custom oak timber frame homes for the mid-west.
		Woodhenge has complete design services available and we are happy to work with architects and engineers to complete designs.
		Woodhenge Timberframes is now a distributor for Thermocore of Missouri Panel Systems.
	www.building.org /profiles/97524.html (163 words)

	Athena's Web Daily Planets
		He had been looking for years for the right place to build something comparable to the prehistoric circle of stone monoliths in England that is thought to have been used to chart the seasons.
		His version consists of 56 10-foot wooden fenceposts placed to align with stars and planets at certain times of the year.
		At the entrance of Woodhenge is his tallest piece, a 50-foot inverted oak carved and painted to look like a pencil.
	www.athenasweb.com /WoodhengeNYT.html (644 words)

	Stonehenge World Heritage Site - Woodhenge -A circular earthwork and timber structure contemporary with Stonehenge
		Woodhenge was discovered through air photography between the world wars
		It is of similar size to Stonehenge and lies between Larkhill and Amesbury, about 2km (1.2miles) north east of the stone circle.
		Excavation of the site then showed that the dark spots were holes for wooden posts.
	www.english-heritage.org.uk /stonehengeinteractivemap/sites/woodhenge/01.html (112 words)

	Weird Wiltshire - Stone Formations
		The development of farming skills and the use of stone as tools, enabled long-term settlements to be established, resulting in these impressive formations.
		Although not made of stone, Woodhenge is thought to pre-date even the mighty Stonehenge.
		Wiltshire's stone formations have a long history and, like more modern buildings affected by war, they have undergone their own metamorphosis throughout the years, while remaining static as a reminder of a past long gone.
	www.weirdwiltshire.co.uk /stones (491 words)

	Hainault Forest Website
		The project was conceived by sculptor Jeff Higley and planned with the Country Park manager Paul Browne.
		Woodhenge forms the focal point of the Nature Trail and has four sculptures in place and later another twelve representing the life cycles of the creatures to be found in the forest will appear, to complete a large circle which will act as an outdoor classroom, a performance space and a gathering point.
		The site of Woodhenge can be seen from the top of Dog Kennel Hill looking towards the lake and All Saints Church Chigwell Row (below).
	www.hainaultforest.co.uk /5Woodhenge.htm (317 words)

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