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Stonehenge: everything you wanted to know (part two)

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Modern Stonehenge

The first record we have to stonehenge is in the twelfth century. A d round about 11 30, blake called hent all, we know as henry of huntington,. wrote about stonehenge and said, what an incredible thing it is. There are these shallow carvings, and there are dozens of them on some stones on the eastern side of the monument, looking out across the plain. Et those little axe heads are good a carved into the air, into the stones. And quite weird things, one of the things that's interesting is that we sometimes find the actual axis, metal axes, symbolically represented by these carvings.

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