Topic ID #16483 - posted 2/16/2012 4:31 AM
Jennifer Palmer
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Multi-million pound windfarm set to be scrapped after walker finds 'line of ancient stones'
Jennifer Palmer
Webmaster
Multi-million pound windfarm set to be scrapped after walker finds 'line of ancient stones'
By Emma Reynolds
Last updated at 7:38 AM on 16th February 2012
A multi-million pound windfarm looks set to be scrapped after an ancient Stone Age monument was spotted on the site using Google Earth.
Workers had already begun installing 15 wind turbines on the mountain top in Wales when a walker stumbled upon a row of stones on the site and realised they were of historical interest.
Archaeologists then plotted the line of stones on Google Earth and decided the relics must be around 3,500 years old.
Read more here.
By Emma Reynolds
Last updated at 7:38 AM on 16th February 2012
A multi-million pound windfarm looks set to be scrapped after an ancient Stone Age monument was spotted on the site using Google Earth.
Workers had already begun installing 15 wind turbines on the mountain top in Wales when a walker stumbled upon a row of stones on the site and realised they were of historical interest.
Archaeologists then plotted the line of stones on Google Earth and decided the relics must be around 3,500 years old.
Read more here.
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