Flagstones, an ancient monument and burial ground in England, is older than Stonehenge, a new radiocarbon-dating study finds.

Researchers say that Flagstones, a large circular enclosure in southern England, dates to around 3200 B.C.E.—which means it ...

Progress has been made on the major construction plans at Stonehenge, after Wiltshire Council approved further steps in the ...

Excavations unearthed a 330-foot-wide (100 ... The site's artifacts are housed at the Dorset Museum. Related: Why was Stonehenge built? Flagstones is about 37 miles (60 kilometers) southwest ...

Excavations at Göbekli Tepe continue to yield ... making it at least 6,000 years older than Stonehenge. The discovery challenges the idea that agriculture was the first step toward civilization ...

Stonehenge sits near the top of Britain’s most iconic landmarks ... Funerals at Flagstones Flagstones, originally discovered during excavations in the 1980s, is considered a “proto-henge,” reflecting ...

The site was likely used as a ritual ground and gathering place, and the wood posts may have been aligned with the Sun as the stones in Stonehenge were. Further excavations and DNA testing will ...

Excavations showed it was formed of a 100m ... The similarity of the site to the first phase of Stonehenge, which has been dated to about 2900 BC, led to the assumption that Flagstones must ...

As well as sharing similarities with other Danish woodhenges, there is also a striking parity with a known woodhenge in Wiltshire, England.

Archaeological research conducted on the prehistoric Dorset burial site known as Flagstones has revealed that it is the earliest known large circular enclosure in Britain. The monument, located near ...