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At first glance it looked like nothing more than a rugged boulder jumbled among many others on the floor of a valley in the West Country.
But a smooth, glossy dip in the stone indicated that it was something very special – a vanishingly rare “polissoir”, or polishing stone, used 5,000 years ago by Neolithic people to hone tools such as axes.
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