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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Steven Morris

‘It would be wonderful’: the team hoping to unearth ‘Cornwall’s Stonehenge’

 Two people shovelling soil next to a deep pit in a ditch
Archaeologists and volunteers at work at Castilly Henge near Bodmin. Photograph: Jonny Weeks/The Guardian

It was a grey Cornish autumn day, but Henry Stevens’s tough shift digging in a field next to the A30 was about to get very exciting.

Her eye was caught by something glinting in the soil and she picked up a flake of flint that had lain for thousands of years within what might just turn out to be a Cornish version of Stonehenge.

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