“Stonehenge is a secondhand monument,” he said sardonically. In an interview, Parker Pearson said his investigators had a “terrible time” trying to find evidence of a proto-Stonehenge. “We concluded that since the instruments didn’t show us anything, there couldn’t be anything there,” Parker Pearson recalled. Parker Pearson, alight with boyish glee, noted that Waun Mawn and Stonehenge are the only two Neolithic monuments in Britain that conform to those specifications. One of the Stonehenge bluestones has an unusual cross-section whose pentagonal shape matches one of the gaps at Waun Mawn.

Source: bd News24 February 12, 2021 20:03 UTC