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 ...
New research reveals that Flagstones in Dorset dates back to 3,200 BC, offering new insight into the origins of monumental ...
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Ancient Britons May Have Built Stonehenge to Symbolize UnityThe monument is composed of rocks transported ... during which prehistoric people erected a large outer circle of sarsen stones and an inner horseshoe of trilithons (pairs of vertical stones ...
A young adult male who was buried under a large sarsen stone at the center of the Flagstones' enclosure was placed there much later — around 1,000 years after the monument was first used.
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TheTravel on MSNArchaeologists Identify Ancient Stone Circle in Dorset to Pre-Date Stonehenge, Raising Questions About the Iconic Monument's Original DateNearly 40 Years After its Discovery, Flagstones Age is Revealed to Archaeologists, Placing the Dorset Stone Circle ... s ...
I feel that the people probably gave their labor willingly in the construction of a monument ... The sarsen trilithons in the center clearly had to go up before the outer sarsen circle.
But scientists now believe that the famous Wiltshire stone circle has a secret ... 2500 BC that the famous sarsen stones were erected on Salisbury Plain to form the monument we would recognise ...
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