Researchers have found that a prehistoric burial site called Flagstones is one of the earliest known large circular ...

Excavations at the site uncovered at least ... Due to its similarities to the earliest phase of Stonehenge, dated to around 2900 BCE, it was previously assumed that Flagstones belonged to a ...

Stonehenge is one of the most mysterious and ... in the 1980s during the construction of the Dorchester bypass. Excavations showed it was formed of a 100-metre-diameter circular ditch made of ...

An ancient burial site has been revealed to be the earliest known large circular enclosure in Britain. Archaeological research by the University of Exeter and Historic England has shed new light on ...

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

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 ...

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

Flagstones is a scheduled monument with finds and excavation archives preserved ... The similarity of this site to the first phase of Stonehenge, dated to around 2900 BC, led to the assumption ...

Excavations unearthed a 330-foot-wide (100 ... Flagstones is about 37 miles (60 kilometers) southwest of Stonehenge. Its similarity to the early stages of Stonehenge, which also includes cremated ...