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A quest reveals the oldest stones of Stonehenge belonged to an earlier site in SECRETS OF THE DEAD “The First Circle of Stonehenge” Nov 16 at 10 pm
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Wednesday, November 16 at 10 p.m. on WOUB
A decade-long archaeological quest reveals that the oldest stones of Stonehenge originally belonged to a much earlier sacred site: a stone circle built on a rugged, remote hillside in West Wales.
Using the latest tools of geotechnology, a dedicated team of archaeologists led by Professor Mike Parker Pearson (University College London) painstakingly searched for the evidence that would fill in a 400-year gap in our knowledge of the site’s bluestones.
Secrets of the Dead reveals the original stones of Europe’s most iconic Neolithic monument had a previous life before they were moved almost 155 miles from Wales to Salisbury Plain.