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A walk led by Roy Canham to explore the archaeology of Salisbury Plain Training Area.
A rare opportunity to see the historic landscape in areas that are usually closed to the public. This year the walk will be to the group of Neolithic Long Barrows and earthworks around Tilshead Lodge.

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An archaeological team has uncovered a 4,500 year-old limestone plaque at south of Chester, in Cheshire, England, bearing a mysterious crisscross pattern, which indicates a direct link with the Stonehenge.
According to a report in the Telegraph, the closest parallel is a chalk plaque found in 1969 on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, just 1km from Stonehenge.
The markings were made with a flint tool and flint from Salisbury Plain has previously been found on site.

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Prehistoric plaque may provide link with Stonehenge
Archaeological director Mike Emery believes new evidence shows a direct link between his dig south of Chester and Stonehenge. His team has uncovered a 4,500 year-old limestone plaque at the Poulton excavation, bearing a mysterious crisscross pattern. The closest parallel is a chalk plaque found in 1969 on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, just 1km from Stonehenge. The markings were made with a flint tool and flint from Salisbury Plain has previously been found on site.

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Long-standing theories that teams of ancient tribesmen hauled 80 giant bluestones from Pembrokeshire to build Stonehenge have been dismissed by a Welsh geology expert.
It has often been claimed that Neolithic people dragged the two-tonne megaliths over 156 miles of mountain, river and sea to build the iconic stone circle in Wiltshire.
Geomorphology expert Brian John, from Newport, Pembrokeshire, has now poured scorn on the "human transport" scenario in a new book - by suggesting the stones were moved by glacier.

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Dr Rupert Till is using cutting-edge acoustic technology to try and decode the secrets of the stones to expose aspects of Neolithic culture.
He revealed details of the research at a conference held at Bristol University.
Dr Till, an expert in music technology and acoustics at the University of Huddersfield, found that certain sounds would have been more easily produced, giving us an insight into what kind of activities would have taken place.
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Stonehenge Astronomical Observatory

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Tiny gold studs thought to be almost 4,000 years old which had been unearthed close to Stonehenge have been found in a desk at Cardiff university.
The gold studs once decorated the handle of a Bronze Age dagger buried in the grave of a warrior at Bush Barrow, Wiltshire between 1900 and 1700 BC.
They were dug up 200 years ago and loaned to the university in the 1960s.

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This toy hedgehog, found in a child's grave at Stonehenge, is proof of what we have always known - children have always loved to play.
The chalk figurine was probably a favourite possession of the three year old, and placed next to the child when they died in the late Bronze Age or early Iron Age, around 3,000 years ago.
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An expert from Bournemouth University has helped to pinpoint that Stonehenge was constructed in 2300 BC and its bluestones were erected 300 years later than previously thought.
The monument could have been a place of pilgrimage for the sick and injured of the Neolithic world, equivalent to an ancient accident and emergency in Southern England.

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The mystery of why bluestones were transported 130 miles from the Preseli Hills in Pembrokeshire to form the inner circle of Stonehenge is thought to have been solved. It is thought the stones had magical healing power.

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