Not a Priddy sight: man held after Bronze Age stone circle vandalised

A man has been arrested after a set of Bronze Age earthworks more than 4,000 years old were vandalised.

The Priddy Circles, near Wells, Somerset, are four stone rings measuring up to 200 metres in diameter. They are believed to predate Stonehenge. The man's arrest follows a joint investigation between English Heritage and Avon and Somerset Constabulary.

Tessa Munt, MP for Wells, told i: "If I decided to walk over Salisbury Plain with a spade and start digging up Stonehenge I'm sure someone would tap me on the shoulder, and these monuments are even older. What has happened is outrageous. We will never get this back."

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