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The exciting Neolithic discoveries in the Preseli hills of Pembrokeshire and the #stonehengelostcircle have recently made the news. Let us look at another intriguing monument contemporary with this landscape of tombs, stone circles and quarries, the Banc Du enclosure. 1/6⤵️ 
2/6 The Banc Du Neolithic enclosure occupies the summit of a low hill at the western end of the Preseli Ridge. It was discovered from the air by @RC_Survey and surveyed by us in 2005. It has the title of being the first dated Neolithic enclosure in Wales.⤵️
3/6 The #earthwork remains are slight and comprise an inner and outer enclosure defined by low banks and shallow ditches built in sections with gaps between. This form of monument is often termed a Causewayed Enclosure.⤵️
🆕 #archaeology: Some of Stonehenge appears to have originally been part of a Welsh stone circle that was dismantled & moved 280 km to Salisbury Plain ~3000 BC.
Here's an #AntiquityThread on research published today in Antiquity (🆓) buff.ly/3rFcVsf 1/🧵
Here's an #AntiquityThread on research published today in Antiquity (🆓) buff.ly/3rFcVsf 1/🧵
The discovery was made at the Waun Mawn site in the Preseli Hills of Wales, close to the quarries some of Stonehenge's bluestones came from. 2/
📷: Excavations at Waun Mawn
📷: Excavations at Waun Mawn
The researchers had previously identified that some of Stonehenge's bluestones came from those nearby quarries.
However, they found the stones were extracted before construction started at Stonehenge. 3/
📷: One of the quarries under excavation
However, they found the stones were extracted before construction started at Stonehenge. 3/
📷: One of the quarries under excavation
