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Evening Standard
Environment
Rod Minchin

Ancient burial site found to be older than Stonehenge

Archaeological research conducted on a prehistoric burial site has shown that it is the earliest known large circular enclosure in Britain.

The Flagstones monument, near Dorchester in Dorset, has been redated to about 3,200 years BC, approximately two centuries earlier than previously thought.

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