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Letter: Could conflict explain the mystery of Stonehenge?

Published 3 March 2021

From Martin Jenkins, London, UK

It is suggested that Stonehenge may be a Welsh stone circle that was transferred to Salisbury plain 20 February, p 16. However, the researchers overlook one explanation for why this may have happened: that the Salisbury plain people were successful in a war with the people of the Preseli hills in Wales and decided to mark their victory by stealing the Preseli ritual centre. This would also explain why Preseli people were interred at Stonehenge: they were forced by the victors to do the work of moving the stone circle, and in some cases this killed them.

Issue no. 3324 published 6 March 2021

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