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"Henge" is Anglo-Saxon and means hanging. The incoming Saxons saw the great stones hanging in mid air OR they saw them as a stone gallows. Early gallows were made of wood and had two uprights with a cross beam. Unfortunately the word henge has since been used to describe any circular earthwork with a bank and ditch. The stones of Stonehenge are not the "henge" - the bank and ditch surrounding them is. Which just shows how inaccurately we now use words and totally forget what they really mean. Banks and ditches don't "hang" do they?
The word "henge" survives in the modern word "hinge" - hinges are used to hang a door on its frame.
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