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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Caroline Davies

Could an ancient cow’s tooth unlock the origins of Stonehenge?

An image of Stonehenge
The tooth came from a jawbone ‘placed in a very specific part of the earliest ring structure of Stonehenge’. Photograph: Matt Cardy/Getty Images

A cow’s tooth from a jawbone deliberately placed beside the entrance to Stonehenge at the Neolithic monument’s very beginning in 2995 to 2900BC could offer tantalising new evidence about how the stones were transported about 125 miles from Wales to Salisbury Plain.

Analysis of the third molar tooth showed the animal began life in Wales, adding weight to a theory that cows were used as beasts of burden in hauling the enormous stones across the country.

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