Under the farmed fields of Hunn in Norway, several forgotten stone circles were uncovered after a parcel of land was cleared, revealing structures that date back several millennia. These newly found rings add to a necropolis, or burial ground, that archaeologists thought they had already well understood. In the autumn of 2026, archaeologists from the Kulturhistorisk Museum in Oslo discovered several previously unknown stone rings at the Hunn site in the county of Østfold, according to the Norwegian scientific media outlet Forsking.no. These structures, one of which still showed the trace of fifteen removed blocks, had remained hidden under a cultivated field. The stone circles only become visible once the arable land is cleared, as plows have erased all traces on the surface. The discovery began with an agricultural drainage project. Alerted to the potential significance of the site, the county of Østfold services first recorded the location, and the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research used ground radar to detect structures beneath the surface. By clearing the arable land, the archaeologists saw appear traces of ring-shaped soil—circular marks that outline the rings, which were then photographed and mapped from the sky by a drone. These newly discovered circles are located in the western part of the Hunn field, long overshadowed by a neighboring sector already famous for its nine stone rings. The new ones, however, had escaped all previous inventory. Dating from the Bronze Age and the Iron Age, they confirm that the site has been used over several millennia and suddenly expand the known extent of this burial field. The rings measure ten to twenty meters in diameter, and each block weighed several hundred kilograms. Many stones have been taken over time, probably reused for other constructions, and only small heaps mark their location. One of the circles bore the trace of fifteen removed blocks. A puzzling fact is that the builders almost always kept an odd number—nine, eleven, thirteen, or fifteen—the reason for which still eludes us. The first excavations also reveal cooking hearths and remains of buildings, indicating a prolonged occupation over time. Some neighboring tombs date back to the Roman period. As early as the 1920s, archaeologist Helge Gjessing had noted here large stones and traces of fire, but without the tools to probe the subsurface, their significance was not realized. These rings have long been interpreted as gathering places, even courts, where communities came to settle their affairs. The excavations, however, tell a different story. According to Anne Lene Melheim from the Kulturhistorisk Museum in Oslo, these circles are primarily funerary monuments, designed to surround and signal the dead. Around these structures, the team led by archaeologist Jakob Jan Edvin Kile-Vesik has just identified several tombs. Their analysis must still determine the age of each ring and the identity of the people honored there. Researchers will also continue the clearing in order to link the two sectors of the burial field.