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You can keep Stonehenge – its Welsh 'birthplace' is where the real magic lies


You can keep Stonehenge – its Welsh birthplace is where the real magic lies
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Archaeologist Mike Parker Pearson’s claim that he had unearthed the original site of Stonehenge in the wild hinterland of West Wales in the recent BBC documentary Stonehenge: The Lost Circle Revealed wowed the world, but probably came as little surprise to those in his inner circle. 
For centuries, experts have speculated and hypothesized that the 5,000-year-old monument hailed from Pembrokeshire’s Preseli Hills – a place few had heard of let alone visited. But the dig at Waun Mawn provided the missing link. Pearson knew that he had struck gold when he found evidence including a hole from a rock that matched the cross-section of a Stonehenge bluestone “like a key in a lock”.  ....

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