News Puzzle
FirstNews
Issue 482
11th September – 17th September 2015
Lost and Found : Crossword
Read the HEADLINES story from this week’s First News, then have a go at the crossword.
All the answers to the crossword are words in the article. These words are underlined for you.
Superhenge!
Ludwig Boltzmann Institute
TWO ancient sites thought to be 4,500 years
old have been discovered – and one of them is
in England.
EPA
Archaeologists in the UK have discovered nearly 100
prehistoric stones buried under a metre of earth at a site
just two miles from Stonehenge in Wiltshire. Meanwhile,
a team from Switzerland has found an ancient Greek city
An artist’s impression showing what
beneath the Aegean Sea between Greece and Turkey.
the stones near Stonehenge might have
looked like thousands of years ago
Experts believe the Wiltshire stones are the largest
Neolithic monument ever built in Britain. The Neolithic
period was the last era of the Stone Age, and ran from around 8,000BC to about 2,000BC.
One of the archaeologists who led the project, Professor Vincent Gaffney, said: “What we are starting to see is the largest
surviving stone monument that has ever been discovered in Britain and possibly in Europe.” The stones were discovered
using radar that can penetrate into the ground.
Stonehenge, which dates back to 2,500BC, is a circle of huge prehistoric stones on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, in the
southwest of England. The site attracts more than a million visitors a year.
The ancient Greek city under the sea has paved streets and is the size of around ten football pitches. It is thought to be a
Bronze Age settlement, and is surrounded by fortifications that would have defended the city from attack.
ACROSS
DOWN
4) time in history, e.g. Neolithic
(noun 6)
1) hidden by a bank of earth (which
had covered the stones for thousands
of years)
5) place, location, area (noun 4)
2) the experts who study the remains
of past human life and activities (plural
noun 14)
6) a place where people lived
(noun 10)
7) equipment used by the
archaeologists to find the stones under
the ground, without having to dig up
the earth (noun 5)
8) Also called the New Stone Age
because the word means ‘new stone’,
this was the later part of the Stone
Age, when ground or polished stone
weapons were used, and the farming
of plants and animals was introduced.
(adjective 9)
3) The word given to the newly
discovered, c-shaped row of nearly
100 stone blocks – because
archaeologists think it may have once
stood upright and been used as an
arena for rituals. (noun 8)
4) the time, or period, before
written history began
(adjective 11)
9) defensive walls, battlements and
barricades (plural noun 14)
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News Puzzle
FirstNews
Issue 482
11th September – 17th September 2015
Lost and Found : Crossword
Read the HEADLINES story from this week’s First News, then have a go at the crossword.
All the answers to the crossword are words in the article. Underline these words as you go.
Superhenge!
Ludwig Boltzmann Institute
TWO ancient sites thought to be 4,500 years
old have been discovered – and one of them is
in England.
EPA
Archaeologists in the UK have discovered nearly 100
prehistoric stones buried under a metre of earth at a site
just two miles from Stonehenge in Wiltshire. Meanwhile,
a team from Switzerland has found an ancient Greek city
An artist’s impression showing what
beneath the Aegean Sea between Greece and Turkey.
the stones near Stonehenge might have
looked like thousands of years ago
Experts believe the Wiltshire stones are the largest
Neolithic monument ever built in Britain. The Neolithic
period was the last era of the Stone Age, and ran from around 8,000BC to about 2,000BC.
One of the archaeologists who led the project, Professor Vincent Gaffney, said: “What we are starting to see is the largest
surviving stone monument that has ever been discovered in Britain and possibly in Europe.” The stones were discovered
using radar that can penetrate into the ground.
Stonehenge, which dates back to 2,500BC, is a circle of huge prehistoric stones on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, in the
southwest of England. The site attracts more than a million visitors a year.
The ancient Greek city under the sea has paved streets and is the size of around ten football pitches. It is thought to be a
Bronze Age settlement, and is surrounded by fortifications that would have defended the city from attack.
ACROSS
DOWN
4) time in history, e.g. Neolithic
(noun 6)
1) hidden by a bank of earth (which
had covered the stones for thousands
of years)
5) place, location, area (noun 4)
2) the experts who study the remains
of past human life and activities (plural
noun 14)
6) a place where people lived
(noun 10)
7) equipment used by the
archaeologists to find the stones under
the ground, without having to dig up
the earth (noun 5)
8) Also called the New Stone Age
because the word means ‘new stone’,
this was the later part of the Stone
Age, when ground or polished stone
weapons were used, and the farming
of plants and animals was introduced.
(adjective 9)
3) The word given to the newly
discovered, c-shaped row of nearly
100 stone blocks – because
archaeologists think it may have once
stood upright and been used as an
arena for rituals. (noun 8)
4) the time, or period, before
written history began
(adjective 11)
9) defensive walls, battlements and
barricades (plural noun 14)
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www.FirstNews.co.uk/forschools