Devil’s Arrows: Ancient builders hauled 55,000-pound stones 11 miles for Britain’s tallest stone row
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“Archaeologists have determined that the 25-tonne stones forming Britain's Devil's Arrows were transported at least 18 kilometers by prehistoric builders approximately 4,000 years ago.”
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