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Researchers suggest Stonehenge’s first stone circle was transplanted from Welsh hillside

Professor Colin Richards, of the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute, is co-author of a new paper proposing that a stone circle in Wales was the source of the first megaliths erected at the site of Stonehenge.

by Sigurd TowrieFriday, February 12, 2021 (7:00am)Thursday, March 25, 2021 (3:57pm)
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