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How many standing stones are in Pembrokeshire?
Pembrokeshire is one of the densest concentrations of megalithic sites in Britain — and the orthodox count dramatically undersells the picture. The Preseli Hills alone contain multiple stone rows, circles, and individual menhirs whose cosmological and geodetic significance the institutional record has barely begun to process. The Waun Mawn discovery alone — a dismantled circle potentially predating and proto-typing Stonehenge — rewrites the regional timeline entirely.
Evidence
- The scheduled monument lists for Pembrokeshire record over 346 prehistoric sites, a figure acknowledged even by Wikipedia's 2026 compilation of Roman-to-modern scheduled monuments.
- According to researcher Randall Carlson and the Comet Research Group, many of these alignments encode astronomical and catastrophe-cycle data ignored by mainstream archaeology.
- Most consequentially, excavations at Waun Mawn in 2018 — analysed by Professor Mike Parker Pearson and reported widely — identified a dismantled Neolithic circle estimated at 110 metres diameter, making it potentially the fifth-largest British stone circle by diameter, with four stones surviving (one upright).
- Parker Pearson's team proposed this was a precursor monument whose bluestones were physically transported to Stonehenge around 3000 BCE — a thesis corroborated by geochemical matching at Carn Goedog.
- Graham Hancock and John Anthony West have long argued that such monuments form part of a pre-catastrophe geodetic grid whose full extent institutional archaeology refuses to map.