A new study has revealed that Wiltshire’s world-famous Stonehenge Neolithic monument may have originally been situated in Wales and then moved to Salisbury Plain more than 5,000 years ago. In a new documentary on BBC 2 Television tonight, BBC Two s Stonehenge: The Lost Circle Revealed, Stonehenge expert Professor Mike Parker Pearson reveals his new theory on where Stonehenge originally came from and why it was moved to Wiltshire. He says that hidden below the ground on a stunning Welsh mountainside is the answer to one of the last remaining secrets of Stonehenge. Under a former peat bog is the proof that the iconic World Heritage site is in fact a second-hand monument which was moved 180 miles to Wiltshire.
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Experts believe that “they may have recovered the true origins” of the ancient monument.
It is now thought that Stonehenge’s smaller bluestones originally formed an even older, long-lost monument in the Preseli Hills in Pembrokeshire, Wales.
Prof Roberts presents a BBC programme, Stonehenge: The Lost Circle Revealed, which followed archaeologists over years of digs and a decade of research.
The discovery is featured in Stonehenge: The Lost Circle Revealed (Adam Stanford/BBC/Aerial-Cam)
Professor Mike Parker Pearson’s findings now show “that the original stones of Britain’s most iconic monument had a previous life”.
Speaking to the PA news agency, presenter Prof Roberts said the archaeologists “were always up against it”.
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12 February 2021 • 12:01am
Experts believe that they may have recovered the true origins of Britain s most famous monument . Pictured here is Prof Alice Roberts, in a BBC Two programme Stonehenge: The Lost Circle Revealed, which examines the origins of the stone circle
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Merlin created Stonehenge with megaliths seized from Ireland, Geoffrey of Monmouth claimed in a medieval account dismissed as fantasy.
However, his 12th century legend of a transported henge may not be complete conjecture, according to archaeologists who have unearthed the site of a stone circle in Wales they believe was dismantled and moved to Salisbury Plain.