Stonehenge 'a royal burial ground'
30 05 08 - 09:22 Stonehenge may have been used as an ancient royal burial ground, new research has revealed.Archaeologists at the University of Sheffield now believe the monument was used as a cemetery from its inception just after 3000BC until well after the large stones went up around 2500BC.
It is thought the cremation burials could represent the natural deaths of a single elite family and its descendants, perhaps a ruling dynasty.
One clue to this is the small number of burials in Stonehenge's earliest phase, a number that grows larger in subsequent centuries, as offspring would have multiplied.
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Unlikely that would have been its only purpose.
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