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 ...

A later burial of a young adult male under a large sarsen stone at the centre of the enclosure took place about 1,000 years or so after its initial use. The earliest construction on Stonehenge ...

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

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 ...

A later burial of a young adult male under a large sarsen stone at the centre of the enclosure took place about 1,000 years or so after its initial use. The earliest construction on Stonehenge ...

"Could Stonehenge have been a copy of Flagstones ... Wales, and artefacts and burial practices implied even locations in Ireland. The university said the findings highlighted "the ...

Could Stonehenge have been a copy of Flagstones ... as implied by artifacts and burial practices. The findings highlight the interconnectedness of Neolithic communities across Britain and beyond.

or it might be that we need to go back to our dates of Stonehenge and think again," she told Live Science in an email. Flagstones, an ancient monument and burial site, was found in the 1980s ...

The parallels between Flagstones and Stonehenge — both serving as burial grounds — have sparked discussions about the emergence of circular enclosures in ancient Britain, which may have taken ...

A later burial of a young adult male under a large ... “The ‘sister’ monument to Flagstones is Stonehenge, whose first phase is almost identical, but it dates to around 2900 BC.