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Polished stones discovered near Stonehenge may have been part of a 4,000-year-old goldsmith's toolkit, experts have claimed. Archaeologists from the University of Leicester detected traces of gold on ...

Archaeologists excavating a tomb at one of Scotland’s oldest known monuments have discovered two polished, 5,500-year-old stone balls, reports Alison Campsie for the Scotsman. The team made the find ...

A stone chopping tool found in Ireland’s earliest known human burial offers a rare peek at hunter-gatherers’ beliefs about death more than 9,000 years ago, researchers say. The curved-edge implement, ...

Through the years, many polished stones have come and gone from my possession. The ones shaped like eggs have remained. The last several years they have nestled together in my mother-in-law’s china ...