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The original Stonehenge? A dismantled stone circle in the Preseli Hills of west Wales

Mike Parker Pearson, Josh Pollard, Colin Richards et al., 2021. Antiquity.

The claim that Waun Mawn was a 110 m stone circle of the same diameter as Stonehenge's enclosure, dismantled around 3000 BC, and that some of its stones went to Stonehenge; one stone hole was said to fit Stonehenge's Stone 62.

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The Waun Mawn claim.

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Parker Pearson, M., Pollard, J., Richards, C., Welham, K., Kinnaird, T., Shaw, D., Simmons, E., Stanford, A., Bevins, R., Ixer, R., Ruggles, C., Rylatt, J., & Edinborough, K. (2021). The original Stonehenge? A dismantled stone circle in the Preseli Hills of west Wales. Antiquity. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2020.239
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