Pearson, MP;
Pollard, J;
Richards, C;
Welham, K;
Kinnaird, T;
Shaw, D;
Simmons, E;
... Edinborough, K; + view all
(2021)
The original Stonehenge? A dismantled stone circle in the Preseli Hills of west Wales.
Antiquity
, 95
(379)
pp. 85-103.
10.15184/aqy.2020.239.
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Abstract
The discovery of a dismantled stone circle—close to Stonehenge's bluestone quarries in west Wales—raises the possibility that a 900-year-old legend about Stonehenge being built from an earlier stone circle contains a grain of truth. Radiocarbon and OSL dating of Waun Mawn indicate construction c. 3000 BC, shortly before the initial construction of Stonehenge. The identical diameters of Waun Mawn and the enclosing ditch of Stonehenge, and their orientations on the midsummer solstice sunrise, suggest that at least part of the Waun Mawn circle was brought from west Wales to Salisbury Plain. This interpretation complements recent isotope work that supports a hypothesis of migration of both people and animals from Wales to Stonehenge.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The original Stonehenge? A dismantled stone circle in the Preseli Hills of west Wales |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.15184/aqy.2020.239 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2020.239 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Antiquity Publications Ltd |
| Keywords: | Britain; Preseli; Stonehenge; Neolithic; megaliths; stone circle |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology > Institute of Archaeology Gordon Square |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10127155 |
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