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Stone tools,flakes and the remains of a final feast at the site in Wiltshire hint that the enormous sarsens that now stand at Stonehenge were brought to Marden Henge first

View an interactive guide to the siteThe final revellers seem to have cleared up scrupulously after the final party at Marden Henge some 4500 years ago.
They scoured the rectangular building and the smart white chalk platform on top of the soil bank, with its spectacular view towards the river Avon in one direction, or the hills from which the giant sarsen stones were brought to Stonehenge in the other.
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Source: theguardian.com

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