First stone circle for over a century is discovered on Dartmoor
First stone circle for over a century is discovered on Dartmoor
By Plymouth Herald | Posted: May 10, 2015
THE first stone circle for more than a century has been discovered on Dartmoor.
The set at least 4,000 years old is the highest circle in southern England and the second-largest on Dartmoor.
Thirty-four metres (111 feet) in diameter and at 525 metres (1,722 ft) on the northern part of the moor near Sittaford Tor, the circle would have been very impressive and dominated the surrounding landscape, the researchers say.
The circle was discovered in 2007 by independent academic researcher Alan Endacott.
Now geophysical investigations are revealing more about the ancient site.
It is fantastic, very exciting, said Andy Crabb, an archaeologist for the national park and Historic England.
Most of them were pretty well researched by antiquarians and early archaeologist in Victorian times. To be able to investigate one now is really exciting.
The first radio-carbon testing ever carried out on a Dartmoor circle, analysing the soil beneath stones, shows they fell about 4,000 years ago.
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