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Article: First excavation for 44 years reveals the Welsh blue chip 'healing secrets' of Stonehenge; Pembrokeshire professor claims the site was a 'prehistoric Lourdes'.(News)
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- Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
- Article date:
- September 23, 2008
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Byline: Robin Turner
WHY transport more than 80 two tonne megaliths over 156 miles of mountain, river and sea to build a stone circle at Stonehenge?
It has remained one of Britain's most enduring mysteries.
Some have claimed the iconic site on Salisbury Plain was an ancient observatory for lunar and solar events.
Others claimed it was a burial site for the high-born while Arthurian legend has itMerlin transported the stones.
But now a Welshman from Pembrokeshire, the place where many believe the stones originate, claims he has the ...