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henge

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henge [hɛndʒ]
n
(Social Science / Archaeology) a circular area, often containing a circle of stones or sometimes wooden posts, dating from the Neolithic and Bronze Ages
[back formation from Stonehenge]


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This site is an example of a henge, which means that it's surrounded by a ditch and a raised bank of earth.
He also meets two competing figures, a druidic character named Vetch and the aggressive dig director Clare, who each want the wooden henge for their own purposes.
But mysterious events surround this excavation of an ancient wooden henge.
 
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