of years from the time that the chalk was laid down, and what we know is that from excavations

it was set upright in the early neolithic period. So before Stonehenge was built, about

the same time as the Stonehenge curcus. This stone obviously retained some significance

for centuries because, not only did they put it upright in the neolithic period, but they

also buried some people here in small pottery urns, so they cremated people and put them

in urns just around the bottom of the stone. And then later, in the Roman period, there's

a small wooden building here and we think that it might have been some sort of shrine

or temple because in and around the building were finds of Roman coins and metalwork.