VRA Core 4 Example 3: Megalithic circle
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In its first stage it was a large earthwork--"henge"--a bank and ditch enclosing the Aubrey holes (named after their 17th century discoverer) arranged in a circle. Later (around 2100 BCE) 80 bluestones were brought from the Preseli mountains in Wales and arranged in a double circle in the center. Somewhat later sarsen stones were arranged in an outer circle with continuous lintels and five trilithons were arranged in a horseshoe, the axis of which pointed to the midsummer sunrise. Even later (1550 BCE) the bluestones were rearranged in the horseshoe and circle. </display> <description source="Digital Imaging Project; Mary Ann Sullivan, Bluffton University; http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/ (accessed 2/23/2009)">Visitors see today the remains of the final stage of Stonehenge, a prehistoric temple used as a place of worship and burial. In its first stage it was a large earthwork--"henge"--a bank and ditch enclosing the Aubrey holes (named after their 17th century discoverer) arranged in a circle. Later (around 2100 BCE) 80 bluestones were brought from the Preseli mountains in Wales and arranged in a double circle in the center. Somewhat later sarsen stones were arranged in an outer circle with continuous lintels and five trilithons were arranged in a horseshoe, the axis of which pointed to the midsummer sunrise. Even later (1550 BCE) the bluestones were rearranged in the horseshoe and circle. </description> </descriptionSet> <locationSet> <display>Stonehenge (Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom)</display> <notes>on the Salisbury Plain</notes> <location type="site"> <name type="geographic" vocab="TGN" refid="7011211" extent="site">Stonehenge</name> <name type="geographic" vocab="TGN" refid="7008180" extent="county">Wiltshire</name> <name type="geographic" vocab="TGN" refid="7002445" extent="country">England</name> <name type="geographic" vocab="TGN" refid="7008591" extent="nation">United Kingdom</name> <name type="geographic" vocab="TGN" refid="1000003" extent="continent">Europe</name> </location> </locationSet> <materialSet> <display>stone; sarsen (sandstone); bluestone</display> <notes/> <material/> </materialSet> <measurementsSet> <display>29.7 m (diameter); 6.7 m (height, tallest stone); 45.2 ton (weight, largest stone)</display> <notes/> <measurements type="diameter" unit="m">29.7</measurements> <measurements type="height" unit="m" extent="tallest stone">6.7</measurements> <measurements type="weight" unit="ton" extent="largest stone">45.2</measurements> </measurementsSet> <sourceSet> <display>Core 4 Sample Database (VCat)</display> <source> <name>Core 4 Sample Database (VCat)</name> </source> </sourceSet> <stylePeriodSet> <display>Late Bronze Age; Neolithic</display> <stylePeriod vocab="AAT" refid="300019278">Late Bronze Age</stylePeriod> <stylePeriod vocab="AAT" refid="300019267">Neolithic</stylePeriod> </stylePeriodSet> <subjectSet> <display>death or burial; timekeeping; Astronomy, Ancient; Sun Rising and setting; prehistoric stone circle; megaliths; lunar temple; solar temple; standing stones; religion and mythology; ceremonial site; post-and-lintel </display> <notes/> <subject> <term type="descriptiveTopic" vocab="LCSAF" refid="sh 85130480">Sun Rising and setting</term> </subject> <subject> <term type="descriptiveTopic" vocab="LCSAF" refid="sh 85009013 ">Astronomy, Ancient</term> </subject> </subjectSet> <techniqueSet> <display>construction (assembling)</display> <notes/> <technique vocab="AAT" refid="300054608">construction (assembling)</technique> </techniqueSet> <titleSet> <display>Stonehenge</display> <title type="cited" pref="true" xml:lang="en">Stonehenge</title> <title type="cited" pref="false" xml:lang="en">Stone Henge</title> </titleSet> <worktypeSet> <display>buildings; religious buildings; temples; buildings; research buildings; observatories; built works; monuments</display> <worktype vocab="AAT" refid="300007595">temple</worktype> <worktype vocab="AAT" refid="300007680">observatory</worktype> <worktype vocab="AAT" refid="300006958">monument</worktype> </worktypeSet> </work> <image id="i_102" href="http://www.core.vraweb.org/examples/html/example003_full.html" refid="102" source="VRA Core Oversight Committee, Core 4 Sample Records"> <agentSet> <display>Sullivan, Mary Ann</display> <notes/> <agent/> </agentSet> <measurementsSet> <display>18 MB</display> <notes/> <measurements/> </measurementsSet> <relationSet> <relation type="imageOf" refid="3" source="Core 4 Sample Database (VCat)"/> </relationSet> <rightsSet> <display>© Mary Ann Sullivan</display> <rights/> </rightsSet> <sourceSet> <display>Digital Imaging Project; Mary Ann Sullivan, Bluffton University; http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/</display> <source> <name/> <refid type="URI">http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/</refid> </source> </sourceSet> <subjectSet> <display>trilithons, lintels</display> <notes/> <subject> <term/> </subject> </subjectSet> <techniqueSet> <display>digital imaging</display> <notes/> <technique/> </techniqueSet> <titleSet> <display>Detail of center axis</display> <title type="partialView">Detail of center axis</title> </titleSet> <worktypeSet> <display>digital image</display> <notes/> <worktype/> </worktypeSet> </image> </vra> |
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