As the plow worked the southern part of the field, it had caught on something heavy and dragged it from where it lay. Hoey watched as the plow rose from the earth. 'It wasn't any old stone,' she recalls now. 'It looked like it had been deliberately made.' The rectangular object was a little over five feet long. Four semicircular notches along one side appeared very like handholds.
What was revealed, as she scraped the earth, was the top of a wall. 'It was so exciting and enthralling. I was the first person to see that in thousands of years.' This was not a grave but a building, and not Bronze Age but older-Neolithic.
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