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New research reveals that Flagstones in Dorset dates back to 3,200 BC, offering new insight into the origins of monumental ...
An ancient monument and burial ground from the Stone Age in England is even older than Stonehenge, according to a new study. It is possible that the creators of Stonehenge used it as inspiration.
Flagstones, an ancient monument and burial ground in England, is older than Stonehenge, a new radiocarbon-dating study finds.
Initially, its similarities to Stonehenge had archeologists and historians assuming that Flagstones must be of a similar date. “Flagstones is an unusual monument; a perfectly circular ditched ...
Thomas Hardy with a sarsen stone at the site now known as Flagstones Dorset Museum Structures like Flagstones and Stonehenge may have taken inspiration from burial sites in eastern Ireland ...
The gesture seemed fitting, given the nature of the excavation; while other experts have speculated that Stonehenge was a prehistoric observatory or a royal burial ground, Darvill and Wainwright ...
If, when you think “England’s earliest cremation cemetery,” you immediately blurt out “Stonehenge,” well, you may have another, older think coming. Flagstones, a burial site in Dorset ...
At a newly dated 5,200 years old, the Flagstones monument in southern England is now the oldest known large stone circle in ...
After a recent archaeological research, Flagstones monument has been redated to about 3,200 years BC An ancient burial site has ... have served as a prototype to Stonehenge. Dorset Museum At ...
An ancient burial site has been revealed to be the ... the findings suggested Flagstones may have served as a prototype to Stonehenge. At least four burials were found to have been placed in ...