To be the first in over sixty years the new dig will last until the 11th of April in hopes of finding who built Stonehenge, for what reason, and why they brought the magnificent stones all the way from Wales.

“The excavation will date the arrival of the bluestones following their 153-mile journey from Preseli to Salisbury Plain and contribute to our definition of the society which undertook such an ambitious project,” Wainright said. “We will be able to say not only why, but when the first stone monument was built.”

Stonehenge has a very confused and extended past, and is much more than just a group of rocks. In fact, at the beginning, it is believed that the structure was actually made of wooden posts. It was only in the third phase of Stonehenge, estimated to be around 2600 BC that the stones made their appearance. But that only leads to the next question; where did the stones come from?

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