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Eynsham in the News 15 Aug 2018 Prehistoric ceremonial landscape ...

Neolithic monuments, Iron Age settlements, square barrows and a Roman farm have been newly discovered by flying archaeologists for Historic England during the recent spell of dry weather.

‘The cropmarks reveal buried remains of later Prehistoric (circa 4000BC-700BC) funary monuments, together with settlement. This site was known about and is protected as a scheduled monument, but there are features, such as a circle of pits that have not been visible for years’ - read more.

This photo (just off the B4449 Stanton Harcourt road) by Damian Grady has topped coverage in BBC News, The Guardian, The Telegraph, The New York Times ... and of course The Oxford Mail.

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