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Stonehenge: everything you wanted to know (part two)

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Stonehenge Is a Very Busy Cemetery for Cremations.

One of the early migrants into britain at this time of huge cultural change. He died two centuries after stonehenge was built, so we had nothing to do with its construction by that time. It's possible even the first megalithes or two have fallen over - he is there at a time when stonehenge is already beginning to be re invented and new religious ideas entering the landscape on a large scale. A couple of his bones have the tips, the flint tips off arrow heads in them. The other two tips of the arrow heads are both missing. And it's a curious thing, because it looks like he wasn't just, he didn't just get an

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