Thursday, February 16, 2012

‘Welsh Stonehenge’ Halts Work on Windfarm


A multimillion pound windfarm could be scrapped after a Stone Age monument was spotted on the site using Google Earth.
Work to install the 15 wind turbines had already began after experts said they were unable to find anything of historical interest on the mountaintop in Carmarthenshire, Wales.

But a weekend rambler stumbled upon a row of stones while trekking across the site on the mountain and realised they were of historical interest.

Archaeologists were called in and discovered the stones on Mynydd Y Betws were between 3,500 and 5,000 years old and could have been part of an ancient site of worship.

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