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- ↑ "Why Stonehenge's bluestones 'were moved from Wales by glaciers NOT prehistoric people'".
- ↑ "Stonehenge 'bluestone' quarries confirmed 140 miles away in Wales". www.ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved 28 May 2018.
- ↑ Brian John (2018). The Stonehenge Bluestones (256pp). Greencroft Books.
- ↑ Pearson, Mike Parker; Bevins, Richard; Ixer, Rob; Pollard, Joshua; Richards, Colin; Welham, Kate; Chan, Ben; Edinborough, Kevan; Hamilton, Derek (7 December 2015). "Craig Rhos-y-felin: a Welsh bluestone megalith quarry for Stonehenge". Antiquity. 89 (348): 1331–1352. doi: 10.15184/aqy.2015.177 . ISSN 0003-598X.
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