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Antiquity is a bimonthly review of world archaeology edited by @RobertEWitcher. Please be aware that we sometimes share relevant images of human remains.

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     🅰ntiquity Journal‏ @AntiquityJ Feb 12

    🆕 #archaeology: Some of Stonehenge appears to have originally been part of a Welsh stone circle that was dismantled & moved 280 km to Salisbury Plain ~3000 BC. Here's an #AntiquityThread on research published today in Antiquity (🆓) https://buff.ly/3rFcVsf  1/🧵pic.twitter.com/8H1y2ucuRL

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      2.  🅰ntiquity Journal‏ @AntiquityJ Feb 12

        The discovery was made at the Waun Mawn site in the Preseli Hills of Wales, close to the quarries some of Stonehenge's bluestones came from. 2/ 📷: Excavations at Waun Mawnpic.twitter.com/BTd1KJSuAW

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      3.  🅰ntiquity Journal‏ @AntiquityJ Feb 12

        The researchers had previously identified that some of Stonehenge's bluestones came from those nearby quarries. However, they found the stones were extracted before construction started at Stonehenge. 3/ 📷: One of the quarries under excavationpic.twitter.com/zn2bvHnNeU

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      4.  🅰ntiquity Journal‏ @AntiquityJ Feb 12

        This prompted the team to turn their attention to the nearby site of Waun Mawn, a dismantled stone circle. Although only 4 stones now remain, they found it was once the third largest stone circle in Britain. 4/ 📷: The remains of Waun mawn, revealing the arc of the circlepic.twitter.com/Ni1C5SNKFo

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      5.  🅰ntiquity Journal‏ @AntiquityJ Feb 12

        They excavated several of the now-empty stoneholes. Scientific dating of charcoal and sediments in them confirmed that Waun Mawn was put up around 3400 BC - before Stonehenge. 5/ 📷: One of the stoneholes, with the stone packing used to secure the missing monolith still presentpic.twitter.com/pyAUd1wVBO

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      6.  🅰ntiquity Journal‏ @AntiquityJ Feb 12

        But perhaps more interestingly, they found several key similarities between the two: ☀ Both were aligned on the midsummer solstice sunrise. 📏 Waun Mawn had a diameter of 110 metres, the same as that of the ditch that encloses Stonehenge. 6/ 📷: Plan of Waun Mawn & Stonehengepic.twitter.com/aDRuFCAAnl

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      7.  🅰ntiquity Journal‏ @AntiquityJ Feb 12

        Crucially, they also found one of the bluestones at Stonehenge has an unusual cross-section which matches one of the holes left at Waun Mawn. Chippings in that hole are of the same rock type as the Stonehenge stone. 7/ 📷: The bluestone at Stonehenge that to matches Waun Mawnpic.twitter.com/3Wn9WMnofW

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      8.  🅰ntiquity Journal‏ @AntiquityJ Feb 12

        Waun Mawn confirms that the Preseli region of Wales was an important and densely settled place in Neolithic Britain, within a concentration of dolmens and large enclosures. 8/

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      9.  🅰ntiquity Journal‏ @AntiquityJ Feb 12

        Yet evidence of activity in the after 3000 BC drops off. “It’s as if they just vanished. Maybe most of the people migrated, taking their stones – their ancestral identities – with them” says lead author Parker Pearson 9/ 📷: How the stones may have travelledpic.twitter.com/NlyMzrg314

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      10.  🅰ntiquity Journal‏ @AntiquityJ Feb 12

        Given the similarities with Stonehenge, it seems they may have moved there. Recent isotopic analysis of people buried at Stonehenge when the bluestones likely arrived reveals many came from western Britain, possibly Wales 10/ 📷: A pit at Stonehenge where remains were foundpic.twitter.com/Z7WSTnKU2j

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      11.  🅰ntiquity Journal‏ @AntiquityJ Feb 12

        Some 43 bluestones survive today at Stonehenge, though many of these remain buried beneath the grass. 12/ 📷: Bluestonehenge, a smaller, dismantled stone circle near Stonehenge. Reconstruction by Peter Dunnpic.twitter.com/5tk9Tyck7D

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      12.  🅰ntiquity Journal‏ @AntiquityJ Feb 12

        Another long-distance mover is the Altar Stone, recently sourced to the Brecon Beacons in South Wales. Parker Pearson wonders if this too may have been part of another Welsh monument 13/ 📷: The Altar Stone at Stonehenge by Pam Brophy / CC BY-SA 2.0pic.twitter.com/YrshX5J7Hb

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      13.  🅰ntiquity Journal‏ @AntiquityJ Feb 12

        “With an estimated 80 bluestones put up on Salisbury Plain ... my guess is that Waun Mawn was not the only stone circle that contributed to Stonehenge. Maybe there are more in Preseli waiting to be found. Who knows? Someone will be lucky enough to find them.” 14/14

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      14.  🅰ntiquity Journal‏ @AntiquityJ Feb 12

        If you want to find out more you can read the whole paper 🆓 hot off the presses: 'The original Stonehenge? A dismantled stone circle in the Preseli Hills of west Wales' https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2020.239 …pic.twitter.com/vg5SDygNDF

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      15.  🅰ntiquity Journal‏ @AntiquityJ Feb 12

        Tonight on BBC2 @ 9PM, @theAliceRoberts will be delving into all these incredible secrets of Stonehenge #StonehengeLostCirclehttps://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/12/dramatic-discovery-links-stonehenge-to-its-original-site-in-wales …

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      16.  🅰ntiquity Journal‏ @AntiquityJ Feb 12

        In the meantime, if you want to find out more about the latest research into #Stonehenge, we've put together a 🆓 collection of some of the top research into those spectacular sarsens 👇 https://buff.ly/2NlXiag pic.twitter.com/nH3DVJHbhe

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