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Tom Metcalfe

Vast cemetery of Bronze Age burial mounds unearthed near Stonehenge

We see a dirt field with a flattened barrow (mound) that has cut marks in it like rays from a sun. There are workers and an excavator.

Archaeologists have discovered a vast cemetery of Bronze Age burial mounds, thought to be up to 4,400 years old, ahead of a building development less than 10 miles (16 kilometers) from Stonehenge.

The cemetery includes more than 20 circular mounds, known as barrows, built between 2400 B.C. and 1500 B.C. on a chalk hillside near Harnham on the outskirts of Salisbury in southwest England.

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