# Parker Pearson 2021: The original Stonehenge? A dismantled stone circle in the Preseli Hills of west Wales

> Mike Parker Pearson, Josh Pollard, Colin Richards et al., 2021. 4 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The Waun Mawn claim.

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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.

**Stonehenge** Articledoi: **[10.15184/aqy.2020.239](https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2020.239)** Checked against the original0

## What it's used for here

The Waun Mawn claim.

## Cited by on this site 4 records

[A 110 m circle was begun at Waun Mawn around 3000 BC, abandoned, and some of its stones re-erected at…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/stonehenge/answers/ANS0CRWPGAG2SR2/a-110-m-circle-was-begun-at-waun-mawn-around-3000-bc)

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[Waun Mawn is claimed as a dismantled circle that supplied Stonehenge](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/stonehenge/events/EVT0CRWPBXW5CAM/waun-mawn-is-claimed-as-a-dismantled-circle-that-supplied)

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[Stonehenge](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/stonehenge)

The mystery article

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[Was a stone circle at Waun Mawn dismantled and its stones taken to Stonehenge?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/stonehenge/questions/QST0CRWPCX41T8J/was-a-stone-circle-at-waun-mawn-dismantled-and-its-stones)

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## Cite it

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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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[Read it free at doi.org](https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2020.239)

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27 Oct 2026, for editors

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