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The stone circle in my local park turned out to be Bronze Age, not Victorian landscaping
There's a small circle of standing stones near where I live in Gloucestershire. I always thought it was just a 19th century folly some rich landowner built for decoration. Walked past it for years without a second thought. Then last month a team from the county archaeology unit put up a notice saying they'd dated charcoal from a nearby pit. Turns out it's about 4,000 years old. They think it was part of a larger ceremonial site. Made me feel pretty silly for ignoring it all this time. Anyone else ever misjudged something local like that?
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river_hart181mo ago
@david821 Right? Makes you wonder what else we're just walking past without a clue. Bet there's hidden history everywhere if we actually looked.
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Hang on, you're telling me that thing I probably walked past a hundred times is actually older than the Pyramids? That's mental. Four thousand years just sitting there in a park.
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