"TC" <do-not-reply@i-do get-enough-spam-already-2498.com> schreef in bericht 
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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.

Thomas

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