Salisbury; the stones.The great stone monoliths that make up the famous primeval pri·me·val adj. Belonging to the first or earliest age or ages; original or ancient: a primeval forest. [From Latin pr site of Stonehenge near here have long been attributed to pre-Christian construction by Druids druids (dr  `ĭdz), priests of ancient Celtic Britain, Ireland, and Gaul and probably of all ancient Celtic peoples, known to have existed at least since the 3d cent. BC. for use in their seasonal rites. Now the
National Trust, the site's guardian, has decreed that Druids, of
whom a remnant persists in modern Britain, are no longer welcome there
and has canceled the druidic dru·id also Dru·id n. A member of an order of priests in ancient Gaul and Britain who appear in Welsh and Irish legend as prophets and sorcerers. ceremony of the summer solstice in June. It seems that the Druids' acticities at Stonehenge had become so closely linked to a pop music festival on the same ground that one could not be dismissed without dismissing the other. Whether the jazz or the Druids were the chief attraction, thirty thousand people were in the habit of camping around the ancient shrine, some for as long as six weeks. The Bronze Age Bronze Age, period in the development of technology when metals were first used regularly in the manufacture of tools and weapons. Pure copper and bronze, an alloy of copper and tin, were used indiscriminately at first; this early period is sometimes called the barrows became strewn strew tr.v. strewed, strewn or strewed, strew·ing, strews 1. To spread here and there; scatter: strewing flowers down the aisle. 2. with garbage, and motorbikes tore up the surface of the burial ground, threatening what the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission describes as "one of the most sensitive sites" in Britain. |
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