Possible stone circle find near monument

From the BBC website, story by Andrew Dawkins;

Archaeologists excavating the area around an historic stone formation believe a man-made ring of stones, known as a stone circle, may have been found at the site.

Arthur’s Stone in Dorstone, Herefordshire, is said to mark the spot where King Arthur slew a giant.

Professor of archaeology at The University of Manchester Julian Thomas said a survey had shown up a circle about 20m (65.6ft) across that seemed to “not be of natural origin”.

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Prof Thomas said when work started at Arthur’s Stone, a trench was opened up “the other side of the hedge from the monument”.

He added: “[We] found that there are further prehistoric features there, so we’ve got an avenue which starts out as an avenue of timbers and is replaced by an avenue of stones.

“[This] runs down the hill from the monument itself and as a response to that, we conducted further surveys.”

Prof Thomas said one thing it showed up was a circle, which “looks like it’s perhaps a barrow or a timber circle or a stone circle”.

But it was “certainly something made by human beings” and about half of that was now being opened up, with a stone circle thought to be the most likely outcome.

Full story at bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjqeyv5qnyeo.amp