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Re:People buried at Stonehenge may have come from as far awa... by lostlogin on Saturday August 04, 2018 @11:22PM (#17689493)
The number of visitors and the nearby motorway really detracted from it for me, but it might have been a bad day. Much smaller but really impressive were other ones that appear on ordinance survey maps all over the U.K. (check the wiki). Even the relatively busy Avebury one is easy to escape the tourists due to is vast size and long Meg sticks in my mind.

I was on a working holiday, and can recommend getting an ordinary survey map of any area you’ll be around in the U.K. and visiting the old stuff. World War Two airbases, Neolithic barrows, canal locks, quarries, mines and churches etc.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stone_circles

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Re:People buried at Stonehenge may have come from as far awa... by chrisseaton on Sunday August 05, 2018 @05:20AM (#17690468)
> nearby motorway

There’s no motorways by Stonehenge - that’s the A303 you’re thinking of.

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Re:People buried at Stonehenge may have come from as far awa... by cup-of-tea on Sunday August 05, 2018 @08:19AM (#17690957)
While a motorway is a special designation of road in the UK, in practice roads like the A303 are motorways, as in roads consisting of constant, heavy motorised traffic.
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Re:People buried at Stonehenge may have come from as far awa... by cup-of-tea on Sunday August 05, 2018 @08:21AM (#17690971)
> ordinance survey > ordinary survey

Ordnance Survey. Interesting couple of auto-complete errors.

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