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  2. Battle of the Beanfield - Wikipedia

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    Neo-druid leader Arthur Uther Pendragon was arrested on each and every summer solstice between 1985 and 1999 whilst trying to access Stonehenge. [3] In the summer of 1988 around 130 people were arrested and in 1989 that figure rose to 260. [3] For the 1999 summer solstice English Heritage granted "limited access" to Stonehenge to neo-druids.

  3. Durrington Walls - Wikipedia

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    Durrington Walls is the site of a large Neolithic settlement and later henge enclosure located in the Stonehenge World Heritage Site in England. It lies 2 miles (3.2 km) north-east of Stonehenge in the parish of Durrington, just north of Amesbury in Wiltshire.

  4. Stonehenge Cursus - Wikipedia

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    The Cursus Barrows Group is a round barrow cemetery located mostly south of the western end of the Stonehenge Cursus. It extends 1200 metres west-to-east along a ridge and measures 250 metres wide. [9] It comprises the round barrows recorded as Amesbury 43 to 56 and Winterbourne Stoke 28 to 30, plus the Fargo hengiform. [9]

  5. English Heritage - Wikipedia

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    English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that manages over 400 historic monuments, buildings and places.These include prehistoric sites, medieval castles, Roman forts, and country houses.

  6. Megalithic architectural elements - Wikipedia

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    Portal stones are a pair of Megalithic orthostats, usually flanking the entrance to a chamber tomb or opposite the axial stone of an axial stone circle. They are commonly found in dolmens. Examples may be seen at Bohonagh and Knocknakilla. A trilithon at Stonehenge

  7. Manhattanhenge - Wikipedia

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    Skaters turn into East 15th St. at Manhattanhenge. The term Manhattanhenge [4] is a reference to Stonehenge, a prehistoric monument located in Wiltshire, England, which was constructed so that the rising sun, seen from the center of the monument at the time of the summer solstice, aligns with the outer "Heel Stone".

  8. Thornborough Henges - Wikipedia

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    The cursus is the oldest and largest ancient monument at Thornborough. [2] It is almost a mile in extent and runs from Thornborough village, under the (later) central henge and terminates close to the River Ure in a broadly east/west alignment, 8 kilometres (5 mi) north-west of Ripon.

  9. Woodhenge - Wikipedia

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    Woodhenge is a Neolithic Class II henge and timber circle monument within the Stonehenge World Heritage Site in Wiltshire, England. It is 2 miles (3.2 km) northeast of Stonehenge, in Durrington parish, just north of the town of Amesbury.