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Newspaper Article
Stonehenge may have been first erected in Wales, evidence suggests
2015
Overview
\"We have dates of around 3400 BC for [Craig Rhos]-y-felin and 3200 BC for Carn Goedog, which is intriguing because the bluestones didn't get put up at Stonehenge until around 2900 BC,\" he said. \"It could have taken those Neolithic stone-draggers nearly 500 years to get them to Stonehenge, but that's pretty improbable in my view. It's more likely that the stones were first used in a local monument, somewhere near the quarries, that was then dismantled and dragged off to Wiltshire.\" The dating evidence suggests that Stonehenge could be older than previously thought, [Mike Parker Pearson] said. \"But we think it's more likely that they were building their own monument [in Wales], that somewhere near the quarries there is the first Stonehenge and that what we're seeing at Stonehenge is a second-hand monument.\" There is also the possibility that the stones were taken to Salisbury Plain around 3200 BC and that the giant sarsens -- silicified sandstone found within 20 miles of the site -- were added much later. \"Normally we don't get to make that many fantastic discoveries in our lives,\" Parker Pearson said. \"But this is one.\"
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Guardian News & Media Limited
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