2 Stone Age circles discovered on English moorland may have been part of a 'sacred arc'

A wide angle shot of a circle of stones in the English moorland with people scattered around.

Two newly discovered stone circles, built about 5,000 years ago in what is now the southwest of England, are the latest to show that Stonehenge was not the only Stone Age circle built in the region.

The new finds, according to Alan Endacott, the independent archaeologist who found them, reinforce the idea that prehistoric people constructed a "sacred arc" of stone circles around high land in the area during the Neolithic period, or New Stone Age.