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Hundreds of 'Rock Crystals' Found From a 6000-Yr-Old Site Indicate Quartz Fragments Were Used to Decorate Graves
Hundreds of 'Rock Crystals' Found From a 6000-Yr-Old Site Indicate Quartz Fragments Were Used to Decorate Graves The burial practices of ancient populations have always intrigued researchers because ...
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Prehistoric Brits used rare rock crystals to mark burial sites, research finds
Evidence for the use of rock crystal - a rare type of perfectly transparent quartz which forms in large hexagonal ... of Cardiff and Herefordshire County Council on a dig at Dorstone Hill in ...
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Two 6000-year-old ‘halls of the dead’ unearthed, in UK first
The sensational finds on Dorstone Hill, near Peterchurch in Herefordshire, were thought to be constructed between 4000 and 3600 BC. Some of the burnt wood discovered at the site shows the character of ...