英语词汇“timber circle”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

timber circle n. Archaeology (the remains of) a prehistoric monument consisting of a circular or elliptical timber structure (usually interpreted as a circle of large free-standing timber posts), typically surviving only as one or more rings of postholes; cf. woodhenge n.Neolithic and Bronze Age examples of such monuments are sometimes located within an enclosure formed by a surrounding bank with an internal ditch (see henge n. 2) or other earthwork.

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1912 Trans. Lancs & Cheshire Antiquarian Soc. 1911 29 181 The Rev. S. E. Collinson..read a paper, illustrated by lantern slides, on ‘The Bleasdale Timber Circles and some suggestions as to their purpose’.

1927 M. E. Cunnington in Antiquity 1 92 (title) Prehistoric timber circles.

1976 A. Burl Stone Circles Brit. Isles v. 123 This circle was eventually replaced by a simple embanked timber circle, and this, in turn, was succeeded by a ring-cairn seemingly of the Early Bronze Age.

2008 Times Lit. Suppl. 13 June 22/1 The stones that we see now [at Stonehenge] were erected..within a much older earthwork that once probably contained a timber circle.

单词	timber circle
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