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STONEHENGE experts believe they have solved the mystery of the ancient monument s origins with a second stone circle found in Wales - raising the possibility that a 900-year-old Merlin legend had some credibility.
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One of Britain s biggest and oldest stone circles has been found in Wales - and could be the original building blocks of Stonehenge. Archaeologists uncovered the remains of the Waun Mawn site in Pembrokeshire s Preseli Hills. They believe the stones could have been dismantled and rebuilt 150 miles away on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire. Last week Stonehenge provided yet more relics for excavators to pour over as two prehistoric bodies were dug up near what will soon become a tunne
St Andrews academics unveil secrets of Stonehenge in new documentary
St Andrews academics are featured in a new documentary unveiling the secrets of Stonehenge.
Stonehenge: The Lost Circle Revealed will include Fife researchers who have completed a ground-breaking study into the famous landmark in Wiltshire.
St Andrews University scientists were part of a team who revealed that bluestones used in the construction of Stonehenge around 5,000 years ago were taken from the ancient Welsh stone circle at Waun Mawn.
Dr Tim Kinnaird, of the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at St Andrews University, said: “It is the hidden information preserved in the soils that provides the chronology for the construction, then the dismantlement of the Waun Mawn stone circle, which appears to have intriguingly occurred just before similar stones were erected at Stonehenge.
Years of archaeological research now suggest that Neolithic Britons lugged massive elements of the iconic monument from far-flung reaches of the island.