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Beneath the turf and just inside the later Sarsen Circle is a double arc of buried stoneholes, the only surviving evidence of the first stone structure (possibly a double stone circle) erected within the centre of Stonehenge (Figs.1 & 2) and currently regarded as instigating the period known as Stonehenge Phase 3i. This phase may have begun as ...
During 2017 and 2018, excavations by his UCL team led to a proposal that the site at Waun Mawn, in the Preseli Hills of Pembrokeshire, had originally housed a 110 m (360 ft) diameter stone circle of the same size as the ditch at Stonehenge [11] [12] The archaeologists also postulated that the circle also contained a hole from one stone which ...
On 12 February 2021, Roberts presented a one-hour BBC Two documentary, Stonehenge: The Lost Circle Revealed, [56] about Mike Parker Pearson's five-year-long quest that filled in a 400-year historical gap in the provenance of the bluestones of Stonehenge and Waun Mawn. [57] [58] [59]
For thousands of years, Britain's Stonehenge has held tight to many of its secrets. Now, scientists say in a study published Wednesday they have uncovered one: The origin of many of the stones ...
Archaeologists have discovered a wide circle of deep shafts surrounding an ancient settlement close to Stonehenge.
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The site and its connection with Stonehenge was the subject of the BBC Two programme, Stonehenge: The Lost Circle Revealed, with Parker Pearson and Professor Alice Roberts. Broadcast was on 12 February 2021, [1] [7] [10] [11] and reported in New Scientist on 20 February 2021. [12]
Visitors watch the sunrise at Stonehenge on Summer Solstice earlier this year. The prehistoric site is once again making a stir in the scientific community as new research is revealed.