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The Age of Stonehenge: A Criterion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2012

George Engleheart
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It has long been understood that if any definite connexion could be proved between Stonehenge and the barrows of admittedly Bronze Age date which surround it, an approximate dating would be possible of Stonehenge itself. The common, first-sight belief that the barrows and the monument represent a necropolis encircling its sanctuary has been opposed on the ground of the irregular grouping and distances of the barrows. It may, however, be suggested in passing that if the Plain was parcelled out among clans or families into territories nearer and further and of varying sizes, and if the known custom obtained of burying the important dead where they had lived, this irregularity is explicable.

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Research Article
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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , January 1932 , pp. 17 - 23
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1932

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page 18 note 2 Ibid., note 2.

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page 20 note 4 Pp. 18, 19. See the whole passage.

page 21 note 1 Stourhead Collection, no. 28. Illustrated by Abercromby, B.A.P., 1, pl. cix.

page 21 note 2 Déchelette, Manuel, vol. 2, p. 191. Evans, Ancient Bronze Implements of Britain, p. 256.

page 21 note 3 Arch. Cambr., June 1928, p. 146.

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page 22 note 1 Déchelette, Manuel, vol. i, p. 374. And others passim.

page 22 note 2 Antiquity, September 1931, p. 316.

page 22 note 3 Thomas, loc. cit.