Stone 62
Labels:
Bluestone,
Stone 062,
Type: Unspotted Dolerite
Deliberate damage caused by souvenir hunters with hammers over the last several hundred years:
Graffiti "FB":
Estimated above ground weight: 1.23 tons
In the interim report of the excavations of 2018 at Waun Mawn (a partial stone circle located a few km west of the Preseli Hill outcrops that are the sources of the bluestones), Prof. Mike Parker Pearson reports that stonehole 091 at Waun Mawn shows the imprint of a pentagonal-based stone (long since removed).
He points out that the size and shape of this imprint are a close match for that of Stone 62 at Stonehenge, that a detached fragment of bluestone found in stonehole 091 is the same rock type as Stone 62, and suggests that Stone 62 may once have stood at Waun Mawn.