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| The moneymen at the Times City Diary are a bit sore about Tarmac looking likely to lose all that lovely gravel - http://business.timesonline.co[...]rticle/0,,8210-2049723,00.html Their Tarmac informant has been looking at the OED, and got lucky, as it seems to have a limited view of what a henge is – "Opposers have somehow given the impression that at risk is a ring of standing stones ……. "It hasn't got stone circles — it's henges in the normal sense of henges," wails a Tarmac insider. (OED: "monument of wood or stone".) "There's no stone involved in this at all." The site is three earthwork mounds and the extraction would affect only a neighbouring piece of farmland…." OED does indeed say "a prehistoric monument consisting of a circle of stone or wooden uprights" and EH at one point on their website apparently back them up "Today the word 'henge' has a specific archaeological meaning: a circular enclosure surrounding settings of stones and timber uprights, or pits"…. But elsewhere makes it clear that's not entirely right – ""A henge is a roughly circular or oval-shaped flat area over 20m in diameter which is enclosed and delimited by a boundary earthwork that usually comprises a ditch with an external bank. Access to the interior is obtained by way of one, two, or four entrances through the earthwork. Internal components MAY include portal settings, timber circles, post rings, stone circles, four-stone settings, monoliths, standing posts, pits, coves, post alignments, stone alignments, burials, central mounds, and stakeholes" As Wikepedia makes clear – "Henges often contain evidence of a variety of internal features including timber or stone circles, pits or burials. They should not be confused with the stone circles which are sometimes present within them". Not to worry. The Tarmac insider quoted seems like he was a mate in a wine bar and there's room to drive a bulldozer through several things said in the article. Reply | with quote |  21st February 2006ce 07:03 In reply to: Re: George : (Moth) |
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