Stonehenge Wasn't the First 'Second-Hand' Prehistoric Monument

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Stonehenge Wasn't the First 'Second-Hand' Prehistoric Monument
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🔄FROM THE ARCHIVE Apparently a lot of monuments were built on top of other monuments.

that Stonehenge was most likely to have been originally built in Pembrokeshire, Wales, before it was taken apart and transported some 180 miles to Wiltshire, England. It may sound like an impossible task without modern technology, but it wouldn’t have been the first time prehistoric Europeans managed to move a monument. Archaeologists are increasingly discovering megaliths across the continent — albeit a small number so far — that were previously put up in earlier monuments.

However, we identified the actual quarries in Pembrokeshire, Wales that the bluestones came from. This is a period before prehistoric people were building stone circles so we also think it is very likely that the bluestones originally formed a rather different type of monument from a stone circle.

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