Ken Follett

And they came from a quarry in Wales.

They're not as big as the triliths, and they're not shaped at all.

They're just whacking great stones.

How do we know they came from this quarry in Wales?

archaeologists can match any stone to where it was in the quarry.

That seems kind of miraculous to me, but they do that with great confidence.

And so in a sense, there's another story to be told about the outer circle, because there's also the question of how did they get there from Wales and why?

You know, the Welsh people just trying to get rid of it or selling it.

I don't know.

But that outer circle that's a thousand years older is like quite a lot of other stone monuments in Britain, which is it's not shaped properly.

Now, Stonehenge, the stones are very carefully shaped.

They didn't come out of the ground like that.

They're smoothed and they're rectangular and the corners are square.

And if you go to other monuments, even other monuments on Salisbury Plain, there are big stones there, but they haven't been shaped like that.

Then you've got to remember that what we're looking at today when we go to Stonehenge is a ruin.

But originally, it was a very tidy design.

75 stones.

There were 30 pairs in a circle, each with a lintel on top.

And it was a very neat looking design.

monument.