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Ill-fated Welsh Millenium Stone rests

Submitted by Anonymous on Sunday, 02 February 2003  Page Views: 2242

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The three-tonne stone from west Wales, which failed to make it to Stonehenge, has been taken to its final resting place. The millennium stone was at the centre of a lottery-funded project to recreate the efforts of Stonehenge's founders two years ago.

The original scheme was scuppered when the stone sank off the Welsh coast just 17 miles into the 240-mile journey from the Preseli mountains in Pembrokeshire to Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire.

The eight-foot tall stone lay on the quayside in Milford Haven since being retrieved by Navy divers until it was moved to the National Botanic Gardens of Wales in Carmarthenshire on Thursday.

It now forms part of an exhibition at the gardens.

"The stone has been placed on its side on a plinth to show it was the one that made the journey," said Owen Jenkins, from the garden.

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Re: Ill-fated Welsh Millenium Stone rests by PAB on Sunday, 12 August 2007
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The Millenium Stone may not have made it very far, but the Botanic Gardens are looking remarkably mature now! The Stone remains on the sledge used to try and transport it to Stonehenge, and there is an Interpretation Board nearby.

There is also an example of the bluestone rock itself, as well as examples of many other types of ancient rock often associated with megalithic sites.

Once I have found a way of linking pictues to an item like this, I will show what the stone and gardens are currently looking like!
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Re: Ill-fated Welsh Millenium Stone rests by Anonymous on Tuesday, 30 November 2004
The gardens are an appropriate place for such a half hearted failure
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