Another part of the Stonehenge mystery has been unearthed before our eyes | Charlotte Higgins
Feb 16, 2021
3 minutes
Connections between the great neolithic monument of Stonehenge and the hills of west Wales have been observed for centuries. Daniel Defoe, writing in the early 18th century about a stone circle in Pembrokeshire, that it was “very like Stone-henge in Wiltshire”. In 1923, the geologist HH Thomas beyond doubt that the monument’s smaller, slimmer, inner stones – not to be confused with the heftier outer sarsens with their great lintels – originated in the Welsh . And 70 years ago, in , her tough-minded, lyrical book about the geology
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