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Stonehenge: everything you wanted to know (part one)

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Is There an Academic Orthodoxy to the Land Route?

The traditional idea is that the stones were moved from pembrokeshire to stonehenge largely by sea. But a new theory suggests they may have been carried overland on rafts and then rafted along the south coast of wales, across the bristol channel. If you carry a stone overland, you go through villages,. you go through farms and gardens, and people are there and involved. And so you're building alliances er, you're doing a lot of parting. It's quite conceivable you're actually passing through people who speak different dialects. Am so you're engaging with the world. i think one of the big things about stonehenge is that when

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