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Stonehenge, the most famous prehistoric monument in Europe, 1___________ on a windswept plain 13 km north 2_______________ Salisbury in the South of England. It was built over a period of about 1700 years, during the transition from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age (2800 BC – 1100 BC). 3_____________it has been studied by amateurs and professionals alike for centuries, we still know very 4_________ about this mysterious place.

Stonehenge is the most elaborate of many stone circles in Britain. It 5_______ of three circles surrounded 6 ___________ a ridge and a ditch. Some of the stones are 7____________ big that for many years people found it hard to believe that the monument 8_____________ by man at all. The so-called “Sarsen stones” of the outer circle are the biggest and have the characteristic lines. Within the circle of Sarsen stones are two rings of smaller “Bluestones”. These came from the Preseli mountains in South Wales, 385 km away. Exactly how these stones were transported is unknown. One 9__________is that they were brought naturally by glaciers during the Ice Age, but until recently geologists consider this impossible. 10 __________ it is thought that the four-ton stones were transported by man using rafts to take them across the sea and up rivers.

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