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Greatest British Ancient Monuments

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Introduction:
"Britain is full of grand ancient monuments. The Radio Times asked readers to vote for their favourite pre-historic and Roman structures, and here are some questions on the top ten (in reverse order, of course!)"


1. The Cerne Abbas Giant is an ancient, and very rude, chalk hill figure, but many historians and archaeologists claim this is the odd monument out in this list, dating from a post-Roman period. When is it most frequently dated from?
    650s
    1950s
    1650s
    1150s


2. Maes Howe is a burial chamber on the Orkney Islands built in around 3000 BC, into which the sun only shines at sunset on Midwinters Day. It is also notable for some graffiti, scrawled by whom?
    Hippies
    Jacobite leaders
    Victorian lovers
    Vikings


3. The Uffington White Horse is one of 16 ancient chalk hill horses in southern England. It has been maintained for nearly three thousand years. But if this maintenance was abandoned, how quickly would it disappear?
    Two hundred years
    Twenty years
    Six years
    Sixty years


4. Maiden Castle, a huge system of earth ramparts, was built by Celtic tribes as a bastion against the Roman invasion.
    True
    False


5. At Avebury, in Wiltshire, is the biggest prehistoric stone circle in the world. A whole village lies inside the circle and henge complex. How many stones were originally set in the circle?
    6
    160
    16
    60


6. Fishbourne Roman Palace, on the South Coast, would have been a grand palace on a totally different scale to any pre-Roman dwellings. It is a very early Romano-British building, with a formal garden and, of course, hypocausts. What modern innovation are hypocausts likened to?
    Central Heating
    Flushing Toilets
    Loft Insulation
    Garages


7. Skara Brae is a 5,000-year-old village in the Orkney Islands. Eight houses are connected by covered walkways. How are these houses organised?
    Seven smaller houses around one large one
    All identical in size and features
    Four large ones and four small ones
    Six small houses between two larger ones


8. Hadrian’s Wall is the great fortification marking the northern limit of the Roman Empire. The several metre high defence stretches 73 miles from the Solway Firth to what is now the area of Newcastle known as:
    South Shields
    Jesmond
    Wallsend
    Byker Wall


9. The Roman Baths at Bath, although substantially restored, still function. The baths were among the grandest in the Empire and held sacred the natural hot spring which feeds the pool. How was the town known to the Romans?
    Aquae Arnemetiae
    Aquae Sulis
    Eboracum
    Londinium


10. As you may have guessed, topping the poll is Stonehenge, that famous stone circle. It incorporates stone from up to 120 miles away – transported before the invention of the wheel, and carved and lifted into place – before metal tools were used. But what actually is a henge?
    Stone circle
    Circular mound
    Prehistoric shrine
    Circular ditch


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