Ancient monument linked to King Arthur is older than Stonehenge, research finds
When you purchase through links on our site , we may earn an affiliate commission . Here ’s how it works . A orphic pit grave in western England — known as Arthur ’s Stone because of its links to the mythologic King Arthur — originated almost 6,000 year ago as part of an luxuriant " ceremonial landscape " across the whole sphere , consort to archaeologists . Excavations this class near the ancient rock structure in rural Herefordshire , just east of the River Wye between England and Wales , show that the site was first fill by an earthen mound pointing to another ancient structure nearby ; but that a few hundred year later , it was reconstruct and realign to point to mound much farther to the south , task leader Julian Thomas , a professor of archaeology at the University of Manchester in the U....