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SPECTACULAR STONEHENGE FINDS

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Each of the sarsen standing stones in Stonehenge’s outer ring weighs around 25 tonnes and is four metres high

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Quarrying tools were found at Carn Goedog in the Preseli Mountains

Photos: Alamy

Impossibly huge and implausibly ancient, for countless generations Stonehenge has inspired awe in those who have cast eyes upon it. Begun around 3000BC, with additions occurring over the next two millennia, it has become one of the planet’s most famous and most puzzling prehistoric constructions.

Although we know that the stones are aligned with the sunrise and sunset at the summer and winter solstice respectively – and that burials took place here – the precise

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