Archaeologists from a London university suspect that stones from the famous Stonehenge monument first stood in Wales and formed a similar monument there. A people who lived there would have taken the stones with them when they moved and set them up again nearly 150 miles east, in the English county of Wiltshire.
Archaeologists from University College, London, noted in 2015 that some of Stonehenge’s stones come from a quarry in the Presili Hills on the west coast of Wales. Three years later, they found traces of a monument nearby, Waun Mawn, which bears a striking resemblance to the Stonehenge stone circle.
There are still four stones at that spot in Wales, but an excavation discovered holes that also contained stones. The four stones and the holes together form a circle that originally consisted of thirty to fifty stones. Research shows that this monument was built around 3400 BC. must be built.
Some of the stones from Stonehenge are of the same type as those from Waun Mawn. They have been making since about 2300 BC. part of Stonehenge. In fact, a stone from Stonehenge fits exactly into a hole found at the site of the monument in Wales.
The circles of Waun Mawn and Stonehenge are both 110 meters in diameter, and are both arranged to align with the path of the sun in mid-summer.
Possibly the roughly two-tonne stones for transport to Stonehenge were placed on stilts and rolled on.
BBC2 will broadcast a documentary about the discovery tonight. Stonehenge: The Lost Circle Revealed starts at 10pm.
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