# People quarried the stones in Preseli and carried them to Wessex, overland or with a water stage, around 3000…

> Most likely: People quarried the stones in Preseli and carried them to Wessex, overland or with a water stage, around 3000 BC.

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# People quarried the stones in Preseli and carried them to Wessex, overland or with a water stage, around 3000…

People quarried the stones in Preseli and carried them to Wessex, overland or with a water stage, around 3000 BC.

**Most likely** Answers **1** questionPublished0

## Where it stands

**Most likely** Its tests supported it: four pieces of evidence for, one against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- Quarry features and tools at the matched outcrops, dated before Stage 1.
- No glacial deposits with Preseli lithologies on Salisbury Plain.
- Occasional bluestone debris or lost stones along feasible routes.

## What would rule it out

- Glacial till on Salisbury Plain containing Preseli erratics of monolith size.

## Evidence 4 for · 1 against

[Extraction recesses, platforms, wedges and hammerstones at Craig Rhos-y-felin and Carn Goedog, dated about…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/stonehenge/evidence/EVD0CRWPDWC2XZM/extraction-recesses-platforms-wedges-and-hammerstones-at)

Established

FOR

[Most dolerite bluestones match Carn Goedog and the rhyolite debris matches Craig Rhos-y-felin to within…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/stonehenge/evidence/EVD0CRWPE467XVP/most-dolerite-bluestones-match-carn-goedog-and-the-rhyolite)

Established

FOR

[Some people cremated at Stonehenge had lived in western Britain, consistent with west Wales.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/stonehenge/evidence/EVD0CRWPEKT51MJ/some-people-cremated-at-stonehenge-had-lived-in-western)

Supported

FOR

[The Newall boulder shows no glacial features and is read as a worked monolith fragment; no glacial deposits…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/stonehenge/evidence/EVD0CRWPEC037SW/the-newall-boulder-shows-no-glacial-features-and-is-read-as)

Supported

FOR

[No route, trackway or lost stone between Wales and Wessex has been found.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/stonehenge/evidence/EVD0CRWPEVM490A/no-route-trackway-or-lost-stone-between-wales-and-wessex-has)

Suggestive

AGAINST

## The questions it answers

[How did the bluestones get from the Preseli Hills to Salisbury Plain?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/stonehenge/questions/QST0CRWPCNA3XRK/how-did-the-bluestones-get-from-the-preseli-hills-to)

Most likelyPeople quarried the stones in Preseli and carried them to Wessex, overland or with a water stage, around 3000…

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Mysteries Department. (2026). People quarried the stones in Preseli and carried them to Wessex, overland or with a water stage, around 3000… [Answer ANS0CRWPDMJ1XAS]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ANS0CRWPDMJ1XAS
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