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• leaky_shower_thought@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  50% i am sure it is stone, the other 50%, henge.

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  • lividweasel@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Maybe we should be calling it “Stone/Henge” then

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    • pennomi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, Stone plus Henge. Henge is not a prehistoric megalith unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning Stone system made useful by the Stone corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full megalithic structure as defined by neolithic hunter-gatherers.

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    • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That’s exactly how I’ve always pronounced it, too.

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  • Saapas@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Something I learned from QI

    Stonehenge is not a true henge, as its ditch runs outside its bank, although there is a small extant external bank as well.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henge

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    • Wolf314159@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The article you keep linking disagrees.

      Although having given its name to the word henge, Stonehenge is atypical in that the ditch is outside the main earthwork bank.

      An atypical example of something is still a “true” example of the thing, especially given that the very term derives its origin from Stonehenge itself.

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• amateurcrastinator@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They reached this conclusion after they found a bunch of papers and scissors laying about

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  • Tikiporch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Nothing beats rock.

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    • amateurcrastinator@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      So true!

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• danekrae@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Indestructible, my ass.

  smithsonianmag.com/…/stonehenge-visitors-used-be-…

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  • Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Wtf is wrong with people

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  • brian@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    but they weren’t destroying the rock, right? they were just splitting it up into smaller rocks. I bet they’d have a heck of a time actually destroying that rock.

    pretty undestructible if you ask me? /s

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    • Nasan@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Ah, the “stick vs.1000 us marines” conundrum

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    • blackbrook@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It can only be destroyed by throwing it into the heart of Mount Doom. Or other volcano.

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• darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Bonus fun fact: Stonehenge is not a true henge!

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henge#Etymology

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  • Nasan@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Stonehenge did nothing wrong. Henge is the imposter here. Henge came by and just decided to define itself differently to discredit Stonehenge. Henge will never succeed in its sick plot.

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      if we’re defining it by the ditch, then what is it?

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  • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Oh my God, now we’re gatekeeping henges…

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    • frog@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Based on the title for The Hill, is it even stone?

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  • Saapas@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Oh damn you had already mentioned this!

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• Fedizen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I mean if it was built out of anything else the destructible material has been looted or destroyed by now. You can say this about pretty much every old thing.

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• Digit@lemmy.wtf ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  nearly indestructible

  Yeah. Nearly. That’s why some got replaced with concrete to keep up appearances.

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• Enzy@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Ah yes Rockhenge

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• markz@suppo.fi ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  aLiEnS

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• Sam_Bass@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Basalt is pretty tough I hear

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  • Mpatch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    As some one with experience in the rock crushing industry. Yes, yes it is

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  • Flocklesscrow@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Barium salt? It’s got electrolytes.

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• Midnitte@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Why is a political website posting about Stonehenge…

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Heritage is a political resource.

    onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/…/jtsb.12353

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• plinky@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  alien druid-engineers, foreseeing british hooliganism: yeah, can’t use sandstone here, folks. 👷‍♀️

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• RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  …uh, your link is just to a stupid image.

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• Ravi@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  No it’s cake!

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• Danarchy@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Is this Loss? This is Loss isn’t it

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