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I. On Salisbury Plain in Southern England stands , the most famous of all megalithic sites. is unique among the monuments of the ancient world. Isolated on a windswept plain, built by a people with no written language, challenges our imagination. The impressive stone circle stands near the top of a gently slop ....

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.... of over the ages. People have destroyed much more. Today, less than half of the original stones still stand as their builders planned. Many of the once upright stones lie on their sides. Religious fanatics, who felt threatened by the mysteries posed by Stonehenge, knocked over many of the standing stones. They toppled some of the huge stones, which then split into pieces; they buried others. Other stones were "quarried" over the centuries as free building material and hauled away. Even into this cent ....