Digging has begun again at a site on Nesscliffe hill - where an Iron Age hillfort once stood.
The council-managed site contains remains of an Iron Age hillfort, which was later occupied by the Romans.
The stone carving, which has circular and straight lines carved into it, was discovered by archaeologists Dr Paul Reilly and Gary Lock.Dr Reilly, a visiting fellow at the University of Southampton, said it was "extremely rare" to find cut marks in carvings in Britain. "That was terribly exciting for us," he said, speaking about the previous find. "But then we started looking at what did it mean?"The discovery attracted attention from experts in countries such as Australia, Brazil and Japan, after teams appealed for help to identify it.
"We literally were getting two dozen emails every day for nearly four months, from all around the world," Dr Reilly added. He told BBC Radio Shropshire he believed the carving, which contains a figure with four horns, had possibly represented a "deity" dating back to the Pagan movement.Follow BBC West Midlands on
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