Flagstones
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Flagstones is a late Neolithic causewayed enclosure in the English county of Dorset. It was discovered beneath the site of the demolished Flagstones House in advance of the construction of the Dorchester by-pass road.
The 100 m diameter enclosure itself contained a variety of human remains in its ditch including those of a two or three year old child beneath a sandstone slab and a newborn baby crushed in the terminal of a ditch segment. A young man had been buried in the centre of the site beneath a sarsen megalith. Carbon dating of the remains put the building of the enclosure at around 3486–2886 BC with the central burial dating to around a thousand years later.
It may have been connected with other nearby Neolithic sites such as Maumbury Rings and Mount Pleasant henge.
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