Проект "Discover Britain".

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New words 1) Menhirs - Менгиры (большие камни) 2) Dense complex of monuments – плотный комплекс монументов 3) Neolithic – Неолит (период времени) 4) Surroundings – Окрестности 5) Handed – Передан 6) Heritage – Наследие 7) In the management - В управлении (кого – либо) 8) internal shaft - внутренний вал 9) external shaft – внешний вал 10) С ircle - Круг 11) Hole – Лунка (зд.) 12) Stone Altar – Алтарный камень (Алтарь) 13) Язычество - Pagan

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What is it ? One of the most famous attractions in the world, Stonehenge is composed of ring structures, built of large menhirs. It is located in the center of the dense complex of monuments of the Neolithic and bronze ages in England. The monument and its surroundings were included in the UNESCO in 1986 together with Avebury. Stonehenge was handed over to the British crown in the management of the «English heritage»

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The scheme of Stonehenge 1 - stone Altar, 6 tons of monolith green Sandstone from Wales 2-3 - barrows without graves 4 - fallen stone of 4.9 metres in length (Slaughter Stone - the scaffold) 5 - Heel stone (Heel Stone) 6 - two of the original four vertically standing stones 7 - pit (ditch) 8 - internal shaft 9 - external shaft 10 Avenue, there is a parallel pair of ditches and walls, leading in 3 km to the Avon river 11 - 30 ring Yam 12 - 30 ring Yam, 13 - the circle of 56 pits, known as hole Aubrey (Aubrey holes) 14 - the small southern entrance of

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The Appointment of Stonehenge Legends connected the construction of Stonehenge with the name of Merlin. In the middle of XVII century the English architect Inigo Jones suggested that Stonehenge was built the ancient Romans. Some of the scientists of the middle ages believed that Stonehenge was built Swiss or German. In the beginning of the XIX century established version of Stonehenge as the sanctuary of the druids. Some believed that this is the tomb of Boadicea - pagan Queen. Even the authors of the XVIII century have noticed that the position of the stones can be linked with astronomy . The most well-known modern attempt to interpret Stonehenge as a Grand Observatory of the stone age belongs to j. Н odgins and J.. White

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