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The new discovery is part of the Stonehenge Hidden Landscape Project which began in the summer of 2010.
* Stonehenge Landscape
* Stonehenge Landscape The National Trust – Information about the surrounding area.
Roman remains are poorly documented at Amesbury, but excavations have revealed Roman structures in the Stonehenge Landscape, and Wessex Archaeology have discovered a large Roman graveyard in the area of the Amesbury Archer burial.
A notable example is the Stonehenge Cursus, within sight of the more famous stone circle, on land belonging to The National Trust's Stonehenge Landscape.
The land on the western side of the toll road is owned by the National Trust, forming part of its Stonehenge Landscape property.
Stonehenge: Mysteries of the Stones and Landscape.
Several of the remaining clumps stand on land owned by the National Trust's Stonehenge Landscape property.
The estate ( formerly known as Stonehenge Historic Landscape and before that as Stonehenge Down ) covers surrounding the neolithic monument of Stonehenge which is administered by English Heritage.
* National Trust Stonehenge Landscape

Stonehenge and is
The hotly debated plan for the capital's Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial, a circle of huge tablets engraved with his speeches ( and promptly dubbed by one of its critics, `` Instant Stonehenge '' ), is another of Udall's headaches, since as supervisor of the National Parks Commission he will share in the responsibility for building it.
If this etymology is combined with the tradition reported by Geoffrey of Monmouth stating that Ambrosius Aurelianus ordered the building of Stonehenge – which is located within the parish of Amesbury ( and where Ambrosius was supposedly buried ) – and with the presence of an Iron Age hill fort also in that parish, then it may be tempting to connect Ambrosius with Amesbury.
The complex including Maeshowe, the Ring of Brodgar, the Standing Stones of Stenness, Skara Brae, as well as other tombs and standing stones represents a concentration of Neolithic sites that is rivalled in Britain only by the complexes associated with Stonehenge and Avebury.
Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument located in the English county of Wiltshire, about west of Amesbury and north of Salisbury.
One of the most famous sites in the world, Stonehenge is composed of a circular setting of large standing stones set within earthworks.
Stonehenge is owned by the Crown and managed by English Heritage, while the surrounding land is owned by the National Trust.
As often happens in archaeological terminology, this is a holdover from antiquarian usage, and Stonehenge is not truly a henge site as its bank is inside its ditch.
Despite being contemporary with true Neolithic henges and stone circles, Stonehenge is in many ways atypical – for example, at over tall, its extant trilithons supporting lintels held in place with mortise and tenon joints, make it unique.
Stonehenge is therefore interpreted as functioning as an enclosed cremation cemetery at this time, the earliest known cremation cemetery in the British Isles.
There is little or no direct evidence for the construction techniques used by the Stonehenge builders.
This is the oldest known depiction of Stonehenge.
After the Battle of the Beanfield in 1985 this use of the site was stopped for several years, and currently ritual use of Stonehenge is carefully controlled.
is: Stonehenge
* c. 2750 BC — 1500 BC — Stonehenge, Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England, is built.
The stone is referred to in the comedy play by Derek Webb called Bringing Back the Bluestones in which a Welsh group decide to emulate the return of the Stone of Scone to Scotland by demanding the return of the Bluestones from Stonehenge to Pembrokeshire.
* 2000 BC: Stonehenge is believed to have been completed.
Stonehenge, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site is about 8 miles ( 13 km ) northwest of Salisbury and greatly aids the local economy.
The permanent Stonehenge exhibition gallery has interactive displays about Stonehenge and the archaeology of south Wiltshire, and its collections include the skeleton of the Amesbury Archer, which is on display.

Stonehenge and property
Hill used his Maryhill property to build the first paved roads in the Pacific Northwest, the Maryhill Museum of Art ( originally intended as a grand residence for the Hills ), Maryhill Stonehenge, a monument to the World War I dead of Klickitat County in the form of a Stonehenge replica, and a planned community.
In 1900, his father purchased " Stonehenge ", a sheep station covering in central Tasmania and ordered Darling to run the property on pain of exclusion from his will.

Stonehenge and National
It includes two National Parks and four World Heritage Sites, including Stonehenge.
Like many World Heritage sites around the world, including Yellowstone National Park, Serengeti National Park, Stonehenge, Pompeii and Herculaneum and the Pyramids of Egypt-the park use fee helps to maintain world-best management practices and facilities for the more than 200, 000 visitors who experience Kakadu each year.
* Stonehenge Estate – An estate with 19th-century buildings that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
* National Geographic: ' Stonehenge Decoded ' exploring Parker Pearson's theories and the excavations of Durrington Walls
The two roads currently pass through Stonehenge and land owned by the National Trust with the A303 passing directly south and the A344 directly to the north with a pedestrian tunnel passing from the Stonehenge visitor centre to the site underneath this road.
This proposal brought further protests from the National Trust, English Heritage, UNESCO, CPRE, the Council for British Archaeology and local groups as the tunnel approach cutting would cut in two a prehistoric track way between Stonehenge and a nearby river.
* The National Trust's proposals for Stonehenge
Fifteen M6 flashlights were used to illuminate the Stonehenge for the June 2008 cover photo of National Geographic Magazine.
England includes Brighton Pier, the Angel of the North, Smiths Arms Wiltshire, the smallest pub in Britain, and Stonehenge, with Scotland including Edinburgh Castle, Royal Mile, Eilean Donan, Jedburgh Abbey, Blair Atholl and Loch Ness and Wales featuring a rugby pitch and a typical Welsh village street while the National Anthem is played.
He also appeared in the National Geographic Channel documentary Stonehenge Decoded, along with the PBS programme " NOVA: Secrets of Stonehenge ".

Stonehenge and Trust
Much of the land is designated open access by the Trust, including the fields immediately around Stonehenge and other fields that become available as part of the chalk grassland reversion project ( see below ).
The land owned by the Trust comprises almost one third of the Stonehenge World Heritage Site, and contains nearly 400 ancient monuments ( most of them scheduled ).

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