"I screamed, said Stevens, 27, a volunteer on the Castilly Henge archaeological dig. I was so excited. I held it up to the sky and the light shone through it. Lovely. The flake was probably the byproduct of a Neolithic person fashioning some sort of tool. As I work here now, I think about the people who were here before us, said Stevens. Why did they build this? What drew them here? I wonder how they must have felt building it."
"Experts and almost 100 volunteers have been on the site near Bodmin over the last month to attempt to work out if Castilly Henge is Cornwall's lost great stone circle. The site is an oval earthwork with an external bank and an internal ditch, thought to have been the venue for gatherings and rituals in about 2,500BC the same sort of time that Stonehenge was built 150 miles away in Wiltshire."
A volunteer discovered a translucent flint flake at Castilly Henge, prompting excitement and reflection on the Neolithic people who occupied the site. The flake appears to be a byproduct of tool production. Archaeologists and nearly 100 volunteers have excavated the oval earthwork near Bodmin to determine whether it is a stone circle henge dated to around 2,500 BC, contemporary with Stonehenge. The site features an external bank and an internal ditch often associated with gatherings and rituals. A geophysical survey revealed six or seven anomalies interpreted as pits that might once have held standing stones, raising the possibility of a previously unknown Cornish stone circle.
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