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Possible Timber Circle Detected on Scotland’s Isle of Arran

EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND—A geophysical survey of Machrie Moor, which is located on Scotland’s Isle of Arran,

A newly detected timber circle at Machrie Moor — already one of Scotland's densest concentrations of prehistoric monuments — suggests the ceremonial landscape was even more elaborate than mapped, pressing on assumptions about the organizational scale of N
Possible Timber Circle Detected on Scotland’s Isle of Arran
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