Avebury's ancient mystery uncovered

The Independent - London | September 1, 1999| | Copyright

THE SOUND of a mechanical digger hitting stone marked the discovery of a Neolithic "lost avenue" that is being described as one of the most important finds this century. Since the 1700s, archeologists and historians have argued over the existence of the huge sarsen stones, which have been unearthed at the site of the world's biggest prehistoric stone circle at Avebury in Wiltshire.

Glyn Goodrick, an archaeologist at Newcastle University, was working alongside his archeological team's mechanical digger when it scraped the first sarsen stone to emerge from the topsoil covering the site, which ...

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