{"id":126786,"date":"2021-08-27T14:22:18","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T21:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/ancient-monument-linked-to-king-arthur-is-older-than-stonehenge-research-finds"},"modified":"2021-08-27T14:22:18","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T21:22:18","slug":"ancient-monument-linked-to-king-arthur-is-older-than-stonehenge-research-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/ancient-monument-linked-to-king-arthur-is-older-than-stonehenge-research-finds","title":{"rendered":"Ancient monument linked to King Arthur is older than Stonehenge, research finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ancient-monument-linked-to-king-arthur-is-older-than-stonehenge-research-finds2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A mysterious stone tomb in western England \u2014 known as Arthur\u2019s Stone because of its links to the mythical King Arthur \u2014 originated almost 6,000 years ago as part of an elaborate \u201cceremonial landscape\u201d across the whole area, according to archaeologists.<\/p>\n<p>Excavations this year near the ancient stone structure in rural Herefordshire, just east of the River Wye between England and Wales, show that the site was first occupied by an earthen mound pointing to another ancient structure nearby; but that a few hundred years later, it was rebuilt and realigned to point to hills much farther south, project leader Julian Thomas, a professor of archaeology at the University of Manchester in the U.K., told Live Science in an email.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a ceremonial landscape like those around Stonehenge or Avebury, but rather earlier,\u201d Thomas said. \u201cIt certainly implies that this is a location that was politically or spiritually important at the start of the Neolithic.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mysterious stone tomb in western England \u2014 known as Arthur\u2019s Stone because of its links to the mythical King Arthur \u2014 originated almost 6,000 years ago as part of an elaborate \u201cceremonial landscape\u201d across the whole area, according to archaeologists. Excavations this year near the ancient stone structure in rural Herefordshire, just east of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}