Stone circle found in Outer Hebrides is 50 years older than Stonehenge
An ancient stone circle built 50 years before Stonehenge has been uncovered on the site of its quarry after lying buried in peat on a Scottish island for thousands of years.
The structure, Na Dromannan, is 100 feet (30 metres) wide and overlooks the four other Standing Stones of Callanish, a pattern resembling a Celtic cross on the Isle of Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides. Built in 3,000BC, it is considered second in importance to Stonehenge and archaeologists believe it will offer new insights into the social function of the stones.
[NB. Although archaeologists have traced the geological site of Stonehenge to a mountain in south Wales from which the stones came, no evidence of its quarry has been found.]
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