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Forum: Stones Forum
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Respond to: A Trail around Standing Stones and Burial Chambers in the UK
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Andy B
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|  New Message Posted!2008-01-03 13:03
I won't post this as a news item as it's a bit of a grandmother egg sucking situation for most of you. Still worth a glance though, plus they give us a plug at the end.
Some of the oldest relics of manmade heritage in the UK are not to be found in museums, but out in the fields and hills, standing weathered but monumental as they have done for thousands of years (actually, some have been re-positioned over the millennia).
Our prehistoric ancestors were a dab hand at somehow getting huge slabs of stone to stand up on their ends, without the benefit of any kind of motorised cranes or hydraulic haulage, leaving us these strange rows and circles of lichen-covered rocks, and earth covered barrows (burial chambers). Those that remain mostly date to the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age, about 4,000 - 5,000 years ago.
etc etc
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/trlout_gfx_en/TRA51147.html
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