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New Stone Circle Find
Goss Moor, Cornwall, England.

 

A recent discovery of a new stone circle has been unearthed during improvements being made to the A30 bypass at Goss Moor, Cornwall.

The Highways Agency has commissioned an archaeological excavation at this site as part of the improvements scheme.  The cost of this excavation is around £500,000 and has yielded many new finds.

The new stone circle itself is a circle henge of late neolithic age. The date of which is around 3000 - 2000BC.  It is similar to the more well known site of Stonehenge but is considerably smaller in appearance.  It consists of a 10m diameter segmented ditch and 10 post holes which form an inner arc with a gap which faces due south.  As yet the team working this site has yet to find any artefacts which can be dated.

"Stuart Foreman, of Oxford Archaeology, which carried out the excavation work on behalf of the Highways Agency said: "The Deep Tye Farm site is a modest example of this type of monument, which can reach quite lavish proportions.  Stonehenge is the best known example.  Such monuments were built by the early farming communities of Britain during the Neolithic period"." (GNN 2006)


Many other finds have been made during these improvements to the bypass, for example a 2000 year old roundhouse.

Any finds at this site will be sent to Royal County Museum in Truro and academic reports will be due out some time in 2007.

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Sources:
(GNN) Government News Network
(South West) Highways Agency
The Times Newspaper