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