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Lending credence to an ancient legend, newly uncovered evidence suggests that Stonehenge’s inner circle of stones was originally erected in Wales, before being transported 175 miles and rebuilt on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England.
Archaeologists working on the Stones of Stonehenge project have found buried holes that once were part of a ring of stones that closely matches the dimensions at Stonehenge—and is located just three miles a Wales mountain range that is home to the quarries where Stonehenge’s “bluestones” were originally mined.
“I’ve been researching Stonehenge for 20 years now and this really is the most exciting thing we’ve ever found,” Mike Parker Pearson, a professor of British later prehistory at University College London and the Stones of Stonehenge leader, told the
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