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Stonehenge is a Neolithic and Bronze Age monument located near Amesbury in the English county of Wiltshire, about 8 miles (13 km) northwest of Salisbury. It is composed of earthworks surrounding a circular setting of large standing stones, known as megaliths. There is some debate about the age of the stone circle, but most archaeologists think that it was mainly constructed between 2500 BC and 2000 BC. The older circular earth bank and ditch, which constitute perhaps the earliest phase o ...

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• Stonehenge - Etymology
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• Stonehenge - Theories about Stonehenge
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• Stonehenge - The bluestones
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• Stonehenge - Laser scanning the Bronze Age dagger and axes at Stonehenge
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Balfarg is a prehistoric monument complex near Glenrothes in Fife (grid reference NO282031). It visibly consists of a henge and the remnants of a stone circle which has been partly reconstructed.. It was excavated between 1977 and 1978 by Roger Mercer prior to the development of a new housing estate, work which established that the two extant standing stones were part of a circle that stood within the henge. The two surviving specimens lined ...

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Cove is a term used to describe a tightly concentrated group of large standing stones found in Neolithic and Bronze Age Britain. Coves are square or rectangular in plan and seem to have served as small enclosures within other henge, stone circle or avenue features. They consist of three or four orthostats placed together to give the impression of a box. An opening between the stones, oriented south east is also a feature. They may have developed from the elaborate facades that fronted Neolit ...

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Children of the Stones was a television drama for children produced by HTV in 1976 and broadcast on the United Kingdom's various ITV franchises in January and February 1977. A novelization by the serial's writers, Jeremy Burnham and Trevor Roy also appeared in 1977. In the United States, it was carried on the Nickelodeon television channel in the early 1980s as part of the series The Third Eye.[1] Children of the Stones - Plot outline. The series followed the adventures of astrophysicist Adam ...

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• Children of the Stones - Plot outline
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• Children of the Stones - The Time Circle
• Children of the Stones - The Original Circle
• Children of the Stones - The Barber-Surgeon
• Children of the Stones - Children of the Stones
• Children of the Stones - Joshua Litton
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The Callanish stone circle is situated in the village of Callanish (spelled Calanais in Gaelic) on the west coast of the Isle Of Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides in Scotland (58.197° N 6.734° W). Dating from around 2000 BC, the 13 primary stones form a circle about 13 m in diameter, with a long approach avenue of stones to the north, and shorter stone rows to the east, south, and west (possibly incomplete avenues). The overall layout of the monument recalls a distorted Celtic cross (although of course ...

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• Callanish - The stones in folklore
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One of the more complicated aspects of Children of the Stones is the concept of the “time circle” and the “psychic bubble”. The main premise of this idea is that the village within the stone circle exists in a time rift where the same actions are played out, over and over again, with the end result being that the power of the circle will eventually be released to the outside world. Whenever this is faulted, however, the time circle resets and the same events attempt again to unfold. However, since time is passing in the outsid ...

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Children of the Stones, Children of the Stones - Plot outline, Children of the Stones - Episodes, Children of the Stones - The Time Circle, Children of the Stones - The Original Circle, Children of the Stones - The Barber-Surgeon, Children of the Stones - Children of the Stones, Children of the Stones - Joshua Litton, Children of the Stones - Cast, Children of the Stones - Crew

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Mull has a coastline of 300 miles. Its landscape is primarily moorland, with a few peaks, and its climate is moderated by the Gulf stream. The highest peak on the island is Ben More (3169 ft / 966 metres). The island is home to over 250 different bird species including the sea eagle, which was introduced in the nearby Island of Rùm and migrated to Mull. Minke whales, porpoises and dolphins are among the sea life ...

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Isle of Mull, Isle of Mull - Features, Isle of Mull - History, Isle of Mull - Tour of Mull, Isle of Mull - Movies and TV, Isle of Mull - Geography, Isle of Mull - Settlements, Isle of Mull - Islands

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Mull has a coastline of 300 miles (≈480 km). Its landscape is primarily moorland, with a few peaks, and its climate is moderated by the Gulf Stream. The highest peak on the island is Ben More (3169 ft / 966 metres). The island is home to over 250 different bird species including the sea eagle, which was introduced in the nearby Island of Rùm and migrated to Mull. Minke whales, porpoises and dolphins are among the sea life ...

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Isle of Mull, Isle of Mull - Features, Isle of Mull - History, Isle of Mull - Tour of Mull, Isle of Mull - Movies and TV, Isle of Mull - Geography, Isle of Mull - Settlements, Isle of Mull - Islands

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The site has been the focus of a long-running environmental protest. In 1999 Stancliffe Stone Ltd submitted a planning application re-open two dormant quarries (Endcliffe and Lees Cross) on the wooded hillside beside Stanton Moor. The proposed quarry was only 200m from Nine Ladies and 30m from the North Circle, another of the five original stone circles on the moor. A local protest group SLAG (Stanton Lees Action Group) was set up to oppose the quarry. The group was joined by environmental protestors who set up a long-running and controversial protest camp and many tree houses. They defied a court evictio ...

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Nine Ladies, Nine Ladies - Campaign to protect it, Nine Ladies - High Court decisions

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There were 87 themed gardens and numerous events. Sculpture was a major theme, reflecting the ceramics heritage of the Potteries, and there was a sculpture trail, with many works that included site-specific sculpture by Antony Gormley and Dhruva Mistry, and a major photography trail. A three-mile train track and a cable car system took visitors around the immense 200-acre site. There was a major Scouts campsite on the site. The Festival was blighted by very poor weather. The weather caused poor attendance figures, of just over 2-milli ...

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Stoke-on-Trent Garden Festival, Stoke-on-Trent Garden Festival - Reclaiming the site, Stoke-on-Trent Garden Festival - The Festival, Stoke-on-Trent Garden Festival - Commemorative memorabilia, Stoke-on-Trent Garden Festival - Festival Park: the site today, Stoke-on-Trent Garden Festival - Festival Waters

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The English conquest of the district now known as Wiltshire began in 552 with the victory of Cynric at Old Sarum, by which the way was opened to Salisbury Plain. Four years later, pushing his way through the Vale of Pewsey, Cynric extended the limits of the West Saxon kingdom to the Marlborough Downs by a victory at Barbury Hill. At this period the district south of the Avon and the Nadder was occupied by dense woodland, the relics of which survive in Cranborne Chase, and the first wave of West Saxon colonization was chiefly confined to the valleys of the Avon and the Wylye, the little township of Wilton which arose in the la ...

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History of Wiltshire, History of Wiltshire - Early history, History of Wiltshire - Land ownership after the Norman Conquest, History of Wiltshire - Wiltshire's hundreds, History of Wiltshire - Ancient moot places and meeting points, History of Wiltshire - Religious administrative areas, History of Wiltshire - Early political history, History of Wiltshire - Employment manufacturing and industry, History of Wiltshire - Parliamentary representation, History of Wiltshire - Prehistoric remains and monuments, History of Wiltshire - Roman remains, History of Wiltshire - Ecclesiastical buildings, History of Wiltshire - Monastic ruins, History of Wiltshire - Notable churches, History of Wiltshire - Secular architecture, History of Wiltshire - Castles, History of Wiltshire - Manor Houses

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Looe - Prehistory and foundation. Archeological evidence, such as the so-called Giant's Hedge and the stone circle at Bin Down (from the Cornish "Bin Dun", meaning "hill fort") on a hill above East Looe, indicates that the area around Looe was inhabited as early as 1000 BC. At the time the Domesday Book was created in 1086, the manor of Pendrym, which included much of the site of modern-day East Looe, was held by William the Conqueror as part of his own demesne and came to be managed by the Bodgrugan (Bodr ...

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Looe, Looe - History, Looe - Prehistory and foundation, Looe - Early Churches, Looe - Development trade and politics, Looe - The 19th Century, Looe - The 20th Century, Looe - Looe today, Looe - East Looe, Looe - West Looe

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A set of commemorative stamps were issued nationally by the Post Office. An incredibly rare Dungeons and Dragons module, Up the Garden Path, was based on the Festival site; only about thirty copies are known to have survived. RPG adventurers travelled to the Garden on a salamander-driven steam train run by gnomes. ...

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Stoke-on-Trent Garden Festival, Stoke-on-Trent Garden Festival - Reclaiming the site, Stoke-on-Trent Garden Festival - The Festival, Stoke-on-Trent Garden Festival - Commemorative memorabilia, Stoke-on-Trent Garden Festival - Festival Park: the site today, Stoke-on-Trent Garden Festival - Festival Waters

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The main site was completed in 1995, and is now known as Festival Park. It was, for the most part, sympathetically treated by St. Modwen Properties who had taken on its management and development. Much of the parkland, pools and trails have been retained as public open space, and are maturing very well. Some of the gardens, such as the Moorlands Heather Rock Garden and The Rocky Valley, survive with their planting scheme relatively intact. Although most wooden structures have been left to return to nature, Festival Park is actively maintaine ...

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Stoke-on-Trent Garden Festival, Stoke-on-Trent Garden Festival - Reclaiming the site, Stoke-on-Trent Garden Festival - The Festival, Stoke-on-Trent Garden Festival - Commemorative memorabilia, Stoke-on-Trent Garden Festival - Festival Park: the site today, Stoke-on-Trent Garden Festival - Festival Waters

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Wiltshire is extraordinarily rich in prehistoric antiquities. The stone age is represented by a number of flint and stone implements, preserved in the unsurpassed collection at Salisbury Museum. Stonehenge, with its circles of giant stones, and Avebury, with its avenues of monoliths leading to what was once a stone circle, surrounded by an earthwork, and enclosing two lesser circles, are the largest and most famous megalithic works in England. A valley near Avebury is filled with immense sarsen blocks, resembling a river of stone, and ...

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History of Wiltshire, History of Wiltshire - Early history, History of Wiltshire - Land ownership after the Norman Conquest, History of Wiltshire - Wiltshire's hundreds, History of Wiltshire - Ancient moot places and meeting points, History of Wiltshire - Religious administrative areas, History of Wiltshire - Early political history, History of Wiltshire - Employment manufacturing and industry, History of Wiltshire - Parliamentary representation, History of Wiltshire - Prehistoric remains and monuments, History of Wiltshire - Roman remains, History of Wiltshire - Ecclesiastical buildings, History of Wiltshire - Monastic ruins, History of Wiltshire - Notable churches, History of Wiltshire - Secular architecture, History of Wiltshire - Castles, History of Wiltshire - Manor Houses

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History of Wiltshire - Monastic ruins. Chief among the few monastic buildings of which any vestiges remain are the ruined abbeys of Malmesbury and of Lacock near Melksham. There are some traces of the hospital for leprous women afterwards converted into an Austin Priory at Maiden Bradley. Monkton Farleigh, farther north along the Somerset border, had its Cluniac priory, founded as a cell of Lewes in the 13th century, and represented by some outbuildings of the manor-house. A college for a dean and 12 prebendaries ...

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History of Wiltshire, History of Wiltshire - Early history, History of Wiltshire - Land ownership after the Norman Conquest, History of Wiltshire - Wiltshire's hundreds, History of Wiltshire - Ancient moot places and meeting points, History of Wiltshire - Religious administrative areas, History of Wiltshire - Early political history, History of Wiltshire - Employment manufacturing and industry, History of Wiltshire - Parliamentary representation, History of Wiltshire - Prehistoric remains and monuments, History of Wiltshire - Roman remains, History of Wiltshire - Ecclesiastical buildings, History of Wiltshire - Monastic ruins, History of Wiltshire - Notable churches, History of Wiltshire - Secular architecture, History of Wiltshire - Castles, History of Wiltshire - Manor Houses

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The Tour of Mull is a closed road rally event held on the island every October during the 2-week school holidays by the 2300 Club. Entrants are serious competitors in serious cars. While the 2300 Club members benefit from their superior cars, the locals benefit from their supreme knowledge of the roads and thus anyone can win. It has been called by many publications including Motoring News as "The Best Rally In The World". However, to many locals the event is a serious inconvenience and the illegal practising beforehand makes the roads extremely dangerous. Previously sponsored by Philips, it has been sponsored since ...

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Isle of Mull, Isle of Mull - Features, Isle of Mull - History, Isle of Mull - Tour of Mull, Isle of Mull - Movies and TV, Isle of Mull - Geography, Isle of Mull - Settlements, Isle of Mull - Islands

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The reclaimation cost £5 million, and the Festival cost £18 million. The reclaimers of the Festival site had to contend with highly contaminated and mine shafted land, and there is still debate among environmental professionals about how such a high-quality clean-up was accomplished in such a short time. A community employment scheme ran alongside the work. Around 300,000 trees were planted, and it is said these were mostly planted by a small team of old men, ex-steelworkers. Not knowing how trees should be planted, the men planted ...

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Stoke-on-Trent Garden Festival, Stoke-on-Trent Garden Festival - Reclaiming the site, Stoke-on-Trent Garden Festival - The Festival, Stoke-on-Trent Garden Festival - Commemorative memorabilia, Stoke-on-Trent Garden Festival - Festival Park: the site today, Stoke-on-Trent Garden Festival - Festival Waters

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Mull has been inhabited since around 6000 BC. Bronze Age inhabitants built menhirs, brochs and a stone circle. In the 14th century Mull became part of the Lordship of the Isles. After the collapse of the Lordship in 1493 the island was taken over by the clan MacLean, and in 1681 by the clan Campbell. In 1588 one of the ships of the Spanish Armada, Florenica, was moored in Tobermory Bay and blown up there, reputedly with £300,000 of gold bullion on board. During the Highland Clearances in the 18th and 19th centuries, the popula ...

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Isle of Mull, Isle of Mull - Features, Isle of Mull - History, Isle of Mull - Tour of Mull, Isle of Mull - Movies and TV, Isle of Mull - Geography, Isle of Mull - Settlements, Isle of Mull - Islands

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