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VRA Core 4 Example 3: Megalithic circle

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    <work id="w_3" source="Core 4 Sample Database (VCat)" refid="3">
        <agentSet>
            <display>unknown (European builder)</display>
            <notes/>
            <agent>
                <name vocab="ULAN" refid="500125274" type="personal">unknown</name>
                <role>builder</role>
            </agent>
        </agentSet>
        <culturalContextSet>
            <culturalContext>British</culturalContext>
            <culturalContext>European</culturalContext>
        </culturalContextSet>
        <dateSet>
            <display>ca. 3200- ca. 1600 BCE (inclusive)</display>
            <notes>Most recent phase of activity dates to ca. 1550 BCE.</notes>
            <date type="inclusive">
                <earliestDate>-3200</earliestDate>
                <latestDate>-1500</latestDate>
            </date>
        </dateSet>
        <descriptionSet>
            <display>Visitors see today the remains of the final stage of Stonehenge, a prehistoric temple used as a place of worship and burial. In its first stage it was a large earthwork--"henge"--a bank and ditch enclosing the Aubrey holes (named after their 17th century discoverer) arranged in a circle. Later (around 2100 BCE) 80 bluestones were brought from the Preseli mountains in Wales and arranged in a double circle in the center. Somewhat later sarsen stones were arranged in an outer circle with continuous lintels and five trilithons were arranged in a horseshoe, the axis of which pointed to the midsummer sunrise.  Even later (1550 BCE) the bluestones were rearranged in the horseshoe and circle.
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            <description source="Digital Imaging Project; Mary Ann Sullivan, Bluffton University; http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/ (accessed 2/23/2009)">Visitors see today the remains of the final stage of Stonehenge, a prehistoric temple used as a place of worship and burial. In its first stage it was a large earthwork--"henge"--a bank and ditch enclosing the Aubrey holes (named after their 17th century discoverer) arranged in a circle. Later (around 2100 BCE) 80 bluestones were brought from the Preseli mountains in Wales and arranged in a double circle in the center. Somewhat later sarsen stones were arranged in an outer circle with continuous lintels and five trilithons were arranged in a horseshoe, the axis of which pointed to the midsummer sunrise.  Even later (1550 BCE) the bluestones were rearranged in the horseshoe and circle.
</description>
        </descriptionSet>
        <locationSet>
            <display>Stonehenge (Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom)</display>
            <notes>on the Salisbury Plain</notes>
            <location type="site">
                <name type="geographic" vocab="TGN" refid="7011211" extent="site">Stonehenge</name>
                <name type="geographic" vocab="TGN" refid="7008180" extent="county">Wiltshire</name>
                <name type="geographic" vocab="TGN" refid="7002445" extent="country">England</name>
                <name type="geographic" vocab="TGN" refid="7008591" extent="nation">United Kingdom</name>
                <name type="geographic" vocab="TGN" refid="1000003" extent="continent">Europe</name>
            </location>
        </locationSet>
        <materialSet>
            <display>stone; sarsen (sandstone); bluestone</display>
            <notes/>
            <material/>
        </materialSet>
        <measurementsSet>
            <display>29.7 m (diameter); 6.7 m (height, tallest stone); 45.2 ton (weight, largest stone)</display>
            <notes/>
            <measurements type="diameter" unit="m">29.7</measurements>
            <measurements type="height" unit="m" extent="tallest stone">6.7</measurements>
            <measurements type="weight" unit="ton" extent="largest stone">45.2</measurements>
        </measurementsSet>
        <sourceSet>
            <display>Core 4 Sample Database (VCat)</display>
            <source>
                <name>Core 4 Sample Database (VCat)</name>
            </source>
        </sourceSet>
        <stylePeriodSet>
            <display>Late Bronze Age; Neolithic</display>
            <stylePeriod vocab="AAT" refid="300019278">Late Bronze Age</stylePeriod>
            <stylePeriod vocab="AAT" refid="300019267">Neolithic</stylePeriod>
        </stylePeriodSet>
        <subjectSet>
            <display>death or burial; timekeeping; Astronomy, Ancient; Sun Rising and setting; prehistoric stone circle; megaliths; lunar temple; solar temple; standing stones; religion and mythology; ceremonial site; post-and-lintel </display>
            <notes/>
            <subject>
                <term type="descriptiveTopic" vocab="LCSAF" refid="sh 85130480">Sun Rising and setting</term>
            </subject>
            <subject>
                <term type="descriptiveTopic" vocab="LCSAF" refid="sh 85009013 ">Astronomy, Ancient</term>
            </subject>
        </subjectSet>
        <techniqueSet>
            <display>construction (assembling)</display>
            <notes/>
            <technique vocab="AAT" refid="300054608">construction (assembling)</technique>
        </techniqueSet>
        <titleSet>
            <display>Stonehenge</display>
            <title type="cited" pref="true" xml:lang="en">Stonehenge</title>
            <title type="cited" pref="false" xml:lang="en">Stone Henge</title>
        </titleSet>
        <worktypeSet>
            <display>buildings; religious buildings; temples; buildings; research buildings; observatories; built works; monuments</display>
            <worktype vocab="AAT" refid="300007595">temple</worktype>
            <worktype vocab="AAT" refid="300007680">observatory</worktype>
            <worktype vocab="AAT" refid="300006958">monument</worktype>
        </worktypeSet>
    </work>
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        href="http://www.core.vraweb.org/examples/html/example003_full.html"
        refid="102" source="VRA Core Oversight Committee, Core 4 Sample Records">
        <agentSet>
            <display>Sullivan, Mary Ann</display>
            <notes/>
            <agent/>
        </agentSet>
        <measurementsSet>
            <display>18 MB</display>
            <notes/>
            <measurements/>
        </measurementsSet>
        <relationSet>
            <relation type="imageOf" refid="3" source="Core 4 Sample Database (VCat)"/>
        </relationSet>
        <rightsSet>
            <display>© Mary Ann Sullivan</display>
            <rights/>
        </rightsSet>
        <sourceSet>
            <display>Digital Imaging Project; Mary Ann Sullivan, Bluffton University; http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/</display>
            <source>
                <name/>
                <refid type="URI">http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/</refid>
            </source>
        </sourceSet>
        <subjectSet>
            <display>trilithons, lintels</display>
            <notes/>
            <subject>
                <term/>
            </subject>
        </subjectSet>
        <techniqueSet>
            <display>digital imaging</display>
            <notes/>
            <technique/>
        </techniqueSet>
        <titleSet>
            <display>Detail of center axis</display>
            <title type="partialView">Detail of center axis</title>
        </titleSet>
        <worktypeSet>
            <display>digital image</display>
            <notes/>
            <worktype/>
        </worktypeSet>
    </image>
</vra>

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