Y and Z Holes

The Y and Z Holes are two rings of concentric (though irregular) circuits of 30 and 29 near-identical pits cut around the outside of the Sarsen Circle at Stonehenge. ^[1]

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1. 11 relations: Aubrey holes, Bluestone, Bronze Age, Common Era, Metre, Radiocarbon dating, Richard J. C. Atkinson, Stonehenge, Stonehenge in Its Landscape, Tumulus, William Hawley.

2. Stonehenge

Aubrey holes

The Aubrey holes are a ring of 56 chalk pits at Stonehenge, named after seventeenth-century antiquarian John Aubrey. Y and Z Holes and Aubrey holes are Stonehenge.

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Bluestone

Bluestone is a cultural or commercial name for a number of natural dimension or building stone varieties, including. Y and Z Holes and Bluestone are Stonehenge.

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Bronze Age

The Bronze Age was a historical period lasting from approximately 3300 to 1200 BC.

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Common Era

Common Era (CE) and Before the Common Era (BCE) are year notations for the Gregorian calendar (and its predecessor, the Julian calendar), the world's most widely used calendar era.

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Metre

The metre (or meter in US spelling; symbol: m) is the base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI).

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Radiocarbon dating

Radiocarbon dating (also referred to as carbon dating or carbon-14 dating) is a method for determining the age of an object containing organic material by using the properties of radiocarbon, a radioactive isotope of carbon.

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Richard J. C. Atkinson

Richard John Copland Atkinson CBE (22 January 1920 – 10 October 1994) was a British prehistorian and archaeologist.

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Stonehenge

Stonehenge is a prehistoric megalithic structure on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, west of Amesbury.

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Stonehenge in Its Landscape

Stonehenge in its landscape: Twentieth century excavations by Rosamund M. J. Cleal, Karen E. Walker and Rebecca Montague is an archaeological report on Stonehenge published in 1995. Y and Z Holes and Stonehenge in Its Landscape are Stonehenge.

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Tumulus

A tumulus (tumuli) is a mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves.

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William Hawley

Lieutenant-Colonel William Hawley (1851–1941) was a British archaeologist who undertook pioneering excavations at Stonehenge.

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See also

Stonehenge

• Altar Stone (Stonehenge)
• Ancient Ruins and Archaeology
• Archaeoastronomy and Stonehenge
• Aubrey holes
• Battle of the Beanfield
• Bluestone
• Bringing Back the Bluestones
• Cultural depictions of Stonehenge
• Earth mysteries
• Excavations at Stonehenge
• Giant's Dance
• Heel Stone
• Heelstone Ditch
• Laser scanning at Stonehenge
• Megalithic architectural elements
• Mount Killaraus
• Mysteries of the Unknown
• Polytantric Circle
• Q and R Holes
• Sharknado 5: Global Swarming
• Station Stones
• Stonehenge
• Stonehenge Archer
• Stonehenge Free Festival
• Stonehenge in Its Landscape
• Stonehenge road tunnel
• The Critical Eye
• The Pandorica Opens
• The Salisbury Museum
• Theories about Stonehenge
• Trilithon
• Wiltshire Museum
• Y and Z Holes

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_and_Z_Holes

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