Masana binciken kayan tarihi daga Jami'o'in Manchester da Cardiff sun gano asalin Arthur's Stone, daya daga cikin sanannun abubuwan tarihi na Stone Age a Burtaniya.
Farfesa Julian Thomas na Manchester, wanda ya kula da haƙa, ya ce babban kabarin Herefordshire yana da alaƙa da 'dakuna na matattu' da aka gano a 2013.
Wannan ne karon farko da aka haƙa tsarin, wanda ya yi wahayi zuwa ga CS Lewis 'Zakin, mayya, da Wardrobe. Dutsen Arthur, wanda ya koma zamanin Neolithic a kusa da 3700BC, yana kan tsaunin da babu kowa a wajen jama'ar Dorstone, yana fuskantar Dutsen Black a kudu Wales.
Masana ilmin kimiya na kayan tarihi sun yi tunanin babban jigonsa, wanda aka gina akan jerin duwatsu masu goyan baya, da ƙaramin ɗakin da ke da madaidaicin kusurwa duk ɓangarori ne na kabarin dutse mai siffa mai kama da juna, kamar waɗanda aka gani a Cotswolds da South Wales. A gefe guda, Farfesa Thomas da Cardiff Farfesa Keith Ray, sun nuna cewa abin tarihi ya taɓa shimfida cikin filin kai tsaye zuwa kudancin kabarin.
Tarihin Ingilishi yana sarrafa Arthur's Stone a matsayin abin tunawa da aka tsara. An yi aikin haƙa kudancin ɗakin da aka binne, a wajen yankin masu kula.
Sun gano cewa kabarin ya taɓa zama babban tudun turf da aka tara tare da shinge na madaidaitan ginshiƙai da aka shirya cikin kunkuntar bango da ke kewaye da tudun. Lokacin da ginshiƙan suka ruɓe kuma tudun ya faɗi, an gina hanyar manyan posts daga Golden Valley da ke ƙasa, suna tafiya zuwa tudun.
“Kodayake Arthur's Stone sanannen abin tunawa ne na Megalithic na mahimmancin ƙasashen duniya, asalinsa ba a san shi ba har zuwa yau. Yana da ban mamaki don samun damar haskaka wannan kabarin mai shekaru 5700 mai ban mamaki, yayin da yake isar da labarin asalin mu. ” yayi bayanin Thomas.
Tudun na asali, wanda aka gani a cikin shingen shinge da alamomin alamomi daga iska da ke kewaye da ɗakunan duwatsu, yana nufin Dorstone Hill, tudun makwabta.
Hanya na ƙarshen post, tare da ɗakunan dutse biyu da madaidaicin dutse a gabansu, suna daidaita kan madaidaicin nesa a cikin rata tsakanin Skirrid da Garway Hill zuwa kudu maso gabas.
"Bambanci daban-daban na matakai biyu na gine-gine abin lura ne tunda ramukan da muka yi a Dorstone Hill a 2011-19 sun sami dogayen tuddai guda uku iri ɗaya cikin tsari zuwa wanda yanzu aka gane yana wakiltar matakin farko na Dutsen Arthur," Farfesa Thomas ya lura.
"An gina kowanne daga cikin tudun ciyayi guda uku akan sawun wani babban katako wanda aka ƙone da gangan." A sakamakon haka, yanzu an danganta Arthur's Stone da waɗannan 'dakuna na matattu,' wanda ya zama kanun labarai a cikin 2013.
"A zahiri, tudun tsauni tsakanin Golden da Wye Valleys yanzu an fallasa su azaman haɗaɗɗiyar yanayin bikin Neolithic."
Haƙƙin da aka tono a Arthur's Stone wani ɓangare ne na Beneath Hay Bluff Project, wanda ke neman farkon farkon tarihin kudu maso yamma Herefordshire tun 2010, wanda Keith Ray da Julian Thomas ke jagoranta, tare da mataimakan daraktoci Nick Overton (Jami'ar Manchester) da Tim Hoverd (Majalisar Herefordshire) ).
