Article 5SHGM Rock cakes? Stonehenge builders may have enjoyed mince pies

Rock cakes? Stonehenge builders may have enjoyed mince pies

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Steven Morris
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Archaeologists say neolithic version of energy bars may also have been eaten at midwinter feasts

After a day enduring midwinter winds whipping off Salisbury Plain, the ancient builders of Stonehenge may have warmed up with a prehistoric version of the mince pie, archaeologists have suggested.

The hardy engineers of the great Wiltshire monument might also have kept themselves going by nibbling on their version of energy bars made of berries, nuts and animal fat.

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