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Surroundings:

PontfaenCrosswellFoel Drygarn Hill FortNew MoatNew MoatBlywr-mawrch

Location:

  • United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Brynberian
  • geo:51.9716,-4.7912
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -3300~ / unknown

Class:

  • Relief, votiv stone or altar
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=70117

Annotations

Neolithic dismantled stone circle of Waun Mawn  in the Preseli Hills of Pembrokeshire, Wales. According to Mike Pearson this stone circle was built c. 3400–3200 BC and then, before 2120 BC, was dismantled, dragged across land and reassembled at Stonehenge in Wiltshire, some 230 km distant.

Sources:

  1. Pearson, Mike Parker; Pollard, Josh; Richards, Colin; Welham, Kate; Kinnaird, Timothy; Shaw, Dave; Simmons, Ellen; Stanford, Adam; Bevins, Richard; Ixer, Rob; Ruggles, Clive; Rylatt, Jim; Edinborough, Kevan (February 2021). "The original Stonehenge? A dismantled stone circle in the Preseli Hills of west Wales". Antiquity. 95 (379): 85–103.

Nearby

Cerrog Lladron Standing Stones (2 km)

Bronze Age Stone Aligment in Wales.

Roman Rd (2 km)

Roman Rd

Foel Cwmcerwyn (2 km)

Cairn near Rosebush.


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