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The Stonehenge School is a mixed comprehensive school in Amesbury, Wiltshire, England for children aged 11 to 16. As of December 2022, the school had 940 places and 969 students were enrolled. [1] The school's logo is an image of Stonehenge. It is divided into a Lower school, Middle school and Upper school.
Atkinson was born in Evershot, Dorset, and went to Sherborne School and then Magdalen College, Oxford, reading Philosophy, Politics and Economics. During the Second World War, his Quaker beliefs meant that he was a conscientious objector. In 1944, he became Assistant Keeper of Archaeology at the Ashmolean Museum.
Relics found within them indicate that they were built between 3400 and 3000 BC, making them among the oldest monumental structures on the islands. The name 'cursus' was suggested in 1723 by William Stukeley, the antiquarian, who compared the Stonehenge cursus to a Roman chariot-racing track, or circus. [2] Stonehenge Cursus, Wiltshire
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The positions of the holes are marked at the Stonehenge site by white discs laid in the ground surface. Archaeologists number them 1 to 56 counting clockwise from the later Slaughter Stone at the eastern side of the north east entrance. Hawley reburied the human cremations he found, placing them in the backfilled hole number 7.
For the past 100 years, the Altar Stone at Stonehenge was thought to come from south Wales - but new research provided a new theory New mystery over origins of Stonehenge after remarkable ...
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