Archaeologists stunned by rare 'rock crystals' found at ancient ceremonial site in Britain
Hundreds of quartz fragments were found at the site in Dorstone Hill, and suggest a new and intriguing way ancient people in ...
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Prehistoric Brits used rare rock crystals to mark burial sites, research finds
Evidence for the use of rock crystal - a rare type of perfectly transparent quartz which forms in large hexagonal ... of Cardiff and Herefordshire County Council on a dig at Dorstone Hill in ...
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Two 6000-year-old ‘halls of the dead’ unearthed, in UK first
The sensational finds on Dorstone Hill, near Peterchurch in Herefordshire, were thought to be constructed between 4000 and 3600 BC. Some of the burnt wood discovered at the site shows the character of ...