Stonehenge
its zenith in the mid third millennium B.C. The
cremation burial dating to Stonehenge's sarsen stones
phase is likely just one of many from this later period of
the monument's use and demonstrates that it was still
very much a domain of the dead. "
Etymology
Christopher Chippindale's Stonehenge Complete gives the
derivation of the name Stonehenge as coming from the Old
English words "stn" meaning "stone", and either "hencg"
meaning "hinge" (because the stone lintels hinge on the upright
stones) or "hen(c)en" meaning "hang" or "gallows" or
"instrument of torture". Medieval gallows consisted of two
uprights with a lintel joining them, resembling Stonehenge's
trilithons, rather than looking like the inverted L-shape more
familiar today.
The "henge" portion has given its name to a class of
monuments known as henges. Archaeologists define henges as
earthworks consisting of a circular banked enclosure with an
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