DEVON, ENGLAND—A stone circle with a diameter of 112 feet has been found on moorland in southwestern England. The first stone circle to have been discovered on Dartmoor for more than 100 years, it is the second largest on the moor and sits more than 1,700 feet above sea level. Scientists were able to obtain radiocarbon dates from soil samples beneath two of the circle’s 30 fallen stones. “These are the first radiocarbon determinations from a Dartmoor stone circle. The dates have produced very similar results and calibrate to the end of the third millennium B.C. (4,000 years ago). This indicates the date by which the stones had fallen,” Jane Marchand, senior archaeologist at Dartmoor National Park, told The Guardian. Preliminary investigations have also revealed a wide, linear ditch running just outside the eastern side of the circle. To read in-depth about the discovery of similar stone monuments off the coast of Scotland, see "Neolithic Europe's Remote Heart."
