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Title: Scientists find ‘Superhenge’ that could be five times the area of Stonehenge
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URL Source: http://www.sciencealert.com/archaeo ... nge?perpetual=yes&limitstart=1
Published: Sep 24, 2015
Author: BEC
Post Date: 2015-09-24 06:47:22 by NeoconsNailed
Keywords: monoliths, durrington, buried, wiltshire
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A formation of around 90 stone monoliths has been found 3 kilometres northeast of Stonehenge in Wiltshire, Britain, and archaeologists suspect it could be part of the largest Neolithic site ever discovered.

Dated to over 4,500 years old, the sandstone blocks were detected under less than a metre of earth, and scientists in the UK are now using a combination of remote sensing and geophysical imaging technology to construct an underground map of the area. "We don't think there's anything quite like this anywhere else in the world," lead researcher and archaeologist Vince Gaffney from the University of Bradford told BBC News. "This is completely new and the scale is extraordinary"..........

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