One or more entrances lead to the centre of the henge. They date to the later part of the Neolithic. Most henges do not contain standing stones, although many contained circular arrangements of pits ...

New findings reveal that a standing stone tucked away in a Berkshire woodland was part of a prehistoric stone circle.

The world's ten oldest landmarks are remarkable testaments to ancient civilizations. Here’s a list of some of the oldest ...

The Altar Stone might have represented an alliance between the Neolithic Britons who built Stonehenge and people in northern Scotland. Based on these new insights, lead author Mike Parker ...

A standing stone was erected next to it and they dug out a ditch 14m/45ft across, with a bank rising next to it to mark it as a sacred space. These Neolithic farmers probably lived at the nearby ...

The hand-held grinding tools used to process cereals that the first European Neolithic societies buried ... have reached after studying the grinding stones of three ritual sites found in recent ...

the star of the show is the standing stones themselves. While out and about, you will spot a few different stones of varying sizes—all of which are believed to date back to the Neolithic era.