5,000-Year-Old Ritual Circle Discovered Under Scottish Island Peat

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Archaeologists using geophysical scanning equipment have found a potential 5,000-year-old ritual circle beneath peat on Scotland's Isle of Arran.
The ring of 12 buried pits, detected without digging, may date to the Neolithic or Bronze Age and could have originally held timber posts or standing stones.

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Archaeologists using geophysical scanning equipment have found a potential 5,000-year-old ritual circle beneath peat on Scotland's Isle of Arran. The ring of 12 buried pits, detected without digging, may date to the Neolithic or Bronze Age and could have originally held timber posts or standing stones.

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