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Professor Mike Parker Pearson uncovered an ancient stone structure at Waun Mawn, in the Preseli Hills, during BBC Two s Stonehenge: The Lost Circle Revealed’ documentary earlier this month. Experts now theorise that the dismantled stone structure in Wales became the building blocks of the Stonehenge monument that stands in Salisbury, Wiltshire, today. Excavations and analysis of the area dated the stone circle to around 3400BC and found several similarities between both sites, l
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Professor Mike Parker Pearson discovered an ancient stone structure in Wales during BBC Two s Stonehenge: The Lost Circle Revealed’ documentary earlier this month that is believed to be the building blocks of Stonehenge. Experts now theorise a dismantled stone circle at Waun Mawn, in the Preseli Hills of West Wales, is likely to have been used as the foundation for the site that stands in Salisbury, Wiltshire, today. Excavations and analysis of the area dated the stone ci
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Experts put forward a new theory on the ancient stone structure during BBC Two s Stonehenge: The Lost Circle Revealed’ documentary. Researchers now believe a dismantled stone circle at Waun Mawn, in the Preseli Hills of West Wales, is likely to have been used as the foundation for the site that stands in Salisbury, Wiltshire, today. Excavations and analysis of the area led by Professor Mike Parker Pearson of University College London dated the stone circle to around 3400BC and fou
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Archaeologist Mike Parker Pearsonâs 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.Â
For centuries, experts have speculated and hypothesized that the 5,000-year-old monument hailed from Pembrokeshireâs Preseli Hills â 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 âlike a key in a lockâ.Â