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Bluestone monument and Carn Menyn, Preseli Hills. The term "bluestone" in Britain is used in a loose sense to cover all of the "foreign," not intrinsic, stones and rock debris at Stonehenge. It is a "convenience" label rather than a geological term, since at least 46 different rock types are represented.
The Preseli Mountains (English: / p r ə ˈ s ɛ l i /, prə-SEL-ee; Welsh: Mynyddoedd y Preseli or Y Preselau), also known as the Preseli Hills, or just the Preselis, is a range of hills in western Wales, mostly within the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park and entirely within the county of Pembrokeshire.
Mynachlog-ddu is a village, parish and community in the Preseli Hills , ... In 2000/2001 a project was established to try to transport a piece of bluestone from the ...
The discovery was also a personal one for Clarke, who grew up in the Preseli Hills in Wales, the origin point of some of Stonehenge’s stones. ... Professor Richard Bevins examines Bluestone ...
Waun Mawn (Welsh for "peat moor") is a megalithic site in the Preseli Mountains of Pembrokeshire, Wales.Following excavations in 2018, it became the site of a supposed dismantled Neolithic stone circle.
The building stones of Wales are many and varied reflecting the diverse geology of the country. Some of the earliest known use of natural stone for building purposes was the sourcing of Ordovician dolerite in the Preseli Hills for the 'bluestone' lintels of Stonehenge.
During 2017 and 2018, excavations by Pearson's team at Waun Mawn, a small and unimpressive-seeming fragmentary stone circle in the Preseli Hills, revealed that the site had originally housed a 110 metre diameter stone circle of the same size as Stonehenge's original bluestone circle, and also like it, oriented towards the summer solstice.
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