Thank you for the link. Quite interesting!

Last time I was in Stonehenge was 16 years ago. Strange tricks memory plays 
us - I remembered the stones to be more dark-grey.

Well, that trip was quite a disaster. What do you need if you go for a trip 
to the UK? Yes, laryngitis! The one and only I had in my whole life. Couldn't 
speak a single word the whole 14 days. And my camera decided to stop working 
the first day -  all photos taken except the first few were not exposed to 
sunlight at all - which I discovered on development of the films back home - 
so no images of that vacation, including Stonehenge. Just my bad luck. the 
pre digital era sometimes really did suck ;-(

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>> This may be a bit off-topic, but I cannot help but wonder how stonehenge 
>> really did look when it was still "in use". I really doubt that there 
>> were just the stones and nothing else - there should have been huts or 
>> primitive tents and other things... even priests need to live somewhere.
>>
>> How did the surrounding landscape look like? Nowadays it is green lawn 
>> amid fields of wheat (or whatever corn). But was this so when the place 
>> was built? Or where there woods? Do you have any idea? Does anybody?
>>
> Yes, dwelling quarters have been found, even quite extensive iirc. 
> http://www.shef.ac.uk/archaeology/research/stonehenge shows recent work 
> done on the site and new ideas about the possible use of the monument.
>
> As far as I know, the landscape looked much different from today. More 
> woods certainly, but with open clearings for fields and meadows. However, 
> the wood extension is probably difficult to trace exactly. Some 
> conclusions can be drawn from pollen concentrations in ancient soils but 
> that does not always say much about the real extent, and much of the 
> landscape has been overhauled in later centuries of course.
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> Thomas
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