In the green hills of southwest Britain, a quiet revolution took place over 5,000 years ago. Long before Stonehenge rose from ...

“Flagstones is an unusual monument ... were also placed within that circle immediately afterwards. A later burial of a young adult male under a large sarsen stone at the center enclosure ...

The 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 ...

"The 'sister' monument to Flagstones is Stonehenge, whose first phase is almost identical, but it dates to around 2900 BC. Could Stonehenge have been a copy of Flagstones? Or do these findings suggest ...

At a newly dated 5,200 years old, the Flagstones monument in southern England is now the oldest known large stone circle in Britain ... when a single "sarsen" – a large block of sandstone ...