A four day tour of the monuments in the Preseli Hills of coastal West Wales

Your guide will be Robin Heath who has lived over 40 years , exploring the Preseli Hill, writing books and lecturing both locally and in the UK.
Your guide will be Robin Heath who has lived over 40 years , exploring the Preseli Hill, writing books and lecturing both locally and in the UK.

conducted by Robin Heath
29th April – 2nd May 2025

VIP Wales have invited me to lead a four-day tour of the major Megalithic monuments within the Preseli Hills. These include the site of the notoriously famous Stonehenge Bluestones. The wild and largely unspoiled landscape of West Wales houses many other monuments that are all centuries older than Stonehenge.

What were all these massive monuments for? This question was originally and famously posed by the late John Michell, antiquarian, scholar, and author of the best selling The View over Atlantis (1968). In 1968 this question had yet to be satisfactorily answered! My task has been to answer it!

The techniques that I have developed over fifty years can readily be applied by anyone who learns some new techniques that have been largely ignored by mainstream archaeologists. These present a radically different insight into the megalithic mindset.

Applying these techniques are based on Astronomical, Geometrical and Metrological techniques.  This opens an entry into an Aladdin’s cave of treasures, not possible within the methodology of current archaeology It reveals the mindset and capabilities of the designers and builders of megalithic monuments.

So… on this tour we invite you to to engage in actually repeating at the actual sites how these remarkable designs were conceived and then erected within these wonderfully located sites in their original landscape. They can be measured, their astronomical, geometrical, and metrological properties seen to meld together, combining all three disciplines into what was clearly an ancient Megalithic Science. A researcher is presented with a new vision of the past, a totally different set of conclusions concerning the capabilities of prehistoric cultures.

By measuring sites and noting their locations you will learn how to recognize how location on the landscape connects prehistoric monuments each to its neighbours, often over long distances. This reveals an ancient knowledge of space and time, a previously unsuspected intent of the Neolithic architects of megaliths, a thoroughly formed cosmology, one that bridges the present chasm between the models of prehistory being promoted by archaeology, purely by including the application of number sciences.

Don’t worry, you will not need a math degree – the builders of these structures surely didn’t have one!

If this all sounds like the kind of experience you would love to get involved with, then let me remind you that I am an experienced and well known researcher, lecturer, author and presenter, happily (and humorously) willing to guide you through the route that archaeology will surely have to embrace.

You will become equipped to change the model of prehistory, way beyond that of “howling barbarians” who evidently built these incomprehensible and massively complex monuments … for no apparent reason!

Numbers on the course are limited – the tour vehicle is a minibus. Accommodation is within a small traditional and highly praised hotel (food is splendid!) in the nearby coastal town of Newport (Pembrokeshire). Food is provided while out on the landscape site.

A leaflet listing the specific details of this tour is under way, including some pictures of the Preseli landscape and some of the sites that, weather permitting, will be visited on the course. Dolmens, Henges, Hill-top ‘forts’, single huge monoliths and stone rings will be found to form patterns on the landscape, revealing the astronomical, geometrical and metrological connections between key sites – including Stonehenge. Should a rainy Welsh day intercede to deny access, there are PowerPoint presentations all set up, and scale models available! You can question & discuss our answers!

In the first instance contact Ewan Rees via by email.
info@vipwales.co.uk

Robin Heath at Origins Conference

I will be at the new Origins Conference in Wiltshire

The Origins Conference was founded by Andrew Collins (Questing Conference) and Hugh Newman (Megalithomania) in 2013 to explore the origins of civilization. It took place at Rudolf Steiner House, except in 2015 it took place at Queen Mary University at Mile End. During the pandemic it went online (2021) and has now permantly moved to Wiltshire. Previous speakers include Graham Hancock, Prof. Robert Temple, Michael Cremo, Prof. Irving Finkel, Dr. Greg Little, Lora Little, Robert Bauval, Lynn Picknett, Clive Prince, William Henry, Dr Manjir Samanta-Laughton, Graham Philips, Christopher Dunn, Deborah Cartwright, Lenie Reedijk, Danny Hilman Natawidjaja, Alan Butler, Maria Wheatley, Scott Creighton and Jim Vieira.

The conference prices are in three phases. Phase 1, Phase 2 and Phase 3. Phase 2 discounted tickets lasts until midnight on 30th September.

Venue Information: The Bouverie Hall, Goddard Rd, Pewsey SN9 5EQ. www.bouveriehall.co.uk. There is ample parking directly at the venue and the Pewsey Train Station is located a few minutes walk away. There are numerous hotels and B&Bs in the area and shops, restaurants and of course pubs are located nearby.

Sunday 3rd November Tour 10.30am – 2.30pm: Meet at main Avebury National Trust car park at 10.30am for an exploration (on foot) of the Avebury Stone Circle complex guided by Robin Heath and guests.

Conference contact info: info@megalithomania.co.uk – Facebook Page – Origins Lectures on Youtube

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Autumn Equinox Sunrise at Waun Mawn standing stone

Just returned from a successful observation of the equinox sunrise taken from the sole remaining standing stone at Waun Mawn.

The time of the equinox astronomically was only an hour away from the sunrise, so this is the closest exactitude one could ever hopefully wish for, and as you can see, it affirms everything I’ve been proposing with regards this site’s most likely function.

This is the site in the Preseli Hills, where a prototype Stonehenge circle has recently been proposed, later transported to make the original outer ring of bluestones, at Stonehenge. See my discussion here.

Primer for PLATONIC THINKING

Any attempt to ‘explain’ Plato will inevitably expose the cultural bifurcation caused by the split between what the modern world calls spirit and matter, that fundamental polarity that has lain deep and uneasily in human consciousness and whose duality has been fully played out during our Age of Pisces. From Classical Greece onwards, spirit and matter have been adversaries within a historical creation story, and mankind’s allotment has been to face and deal with this dual dragon, having the fiery breath of fundamentalist polarity, and has most recently chosen matter as its friend and abandoned spirit as superstitious.

Plato’s works are of crucial importance in describing a cosmology which offers humankind the chance to believe in and even interact with higher intelligences. In The Sleepwalkers, the materialist Arthur Koestler is not keen on Plato. He attacks him and Platonists in general for their non-scientific and passive view of the world, which he claims held back the ancient world even though those Greek empiricists appear to have kick-started both the scientific process and logical methodology remarkably well from the sixth to the fourth century BC.

Meanwhile, Richard Tarnas, in The Passion of the Western Mind, unlike Koestler, has read and understood his astrology and his metaphysics, is pro-Plato and places him as a philosopher who saw this possibility of building of a relationship with Higher Intelligence and that scientific experimentation is not the sole way forward if one wishes to understand the workings of the Cosmos.

To Plato, it hardly mattered if one improved one’s lot by understanding how a lever worked or what made an elephant able to stand up. What mattered was that one understood that all things ‘under the Moon’ belonged to the sublunary world representing the imperfect mortal world, a distortion or false picture of the cosmic perfection of Divine Mind. Man’s task was ultimately to be able to understand, even reflect back, that perfect Form, the creative Idea that lay behind mortal experience of the senses – the Form.

The Idea precedes the Form.

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Royal Sacred Landscape Geometry

Getting Wise about the Royal Mile

Preface

It was a big shock for me to discover that the three capital cities of the UK mainland, London, Edinburgh and Cardiff define the corners of a huge right angled triangle. In each case, the corner of the triangle is accurately close to the Royal palace and/or  Castles of those places.

The three capitals that define the United Kingdom, with the exception of Northern Ireland, define a 5-12-13 triangle, with Cardiff’s Castle mound defining the right angle.

This is no ordinary triangle, for its side lengths fall into the ratios of five to twelve to thirteen, this shape familiar to geometers and termed the second Pythagorean (right-angled) triangle, or simply, “a 5:12:13”. It is no accidental or coincidental triangle either, having its roots, as a symbol of life on earth, going well back into prehistoric times.

introduction

The continuing media news story concerns itself with the late Queen’s recent passing and the decision to transport Her Majesty’s coffin from Balmoral to Edinburgh, in order that the coffin can lie in state in St Giles’ Cathedral, on the Royal Mile, and thence to Buckingham Palace and finally Westminster Palace prior to  internment at Windsor on Monday 22nd October 2022.  There has been no explanation or understanding of the greater significance of all of this action, although one BBC correspondent was heard to say “Edinburgh Castle is a mile or so from Holyrood Palace, along the Royal Mile”.

These two Royal monuments are not ‘about a mile or so apart‘ at all. This  display of metrological ignorance stems from the regrettable fact that most moderns have never been told or have thought unimportant something that is very important about our legacy from ancient times. In a country that is perhaps obsessed with its historical roots, we appear to have lost akmost all contact with some of the more relevant sources of own remarkable origins. Interested.. Read on!

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Legal Success for Stonehenge Alliance is great news, but…

The recent legal halting to the original plans for a tunnel to cut under the Stonehenge landscape may have slowed down one process of degrading the archaeological value of the monument’s extensive landscape, but it’s a temporary pause, and plans are again back underway.

This massive road works within the landscape of Stonehenge is not the only degradation threat that is going on at England’s ‘National Temple’. In this post I want to point out another threat to our understanding of this monument, one which increasingly restricts the future interpretation of the design of the monument, what it was for, and what it represented.

Drayton’s poem, Polyolbion, concerns the fate of those who located and placed the stones at Stonehenge, and well sums up the subject of this article,

“Ill did those mighty men to trust thee with their story;  Thou hast forgot their names who reared thee for their glory.”

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The Original Bluestone Circle, yes or no?

Waun Mawn – is this the site of the Original Bluestone Circle?

a) How to find the site

The Waun Mawn sites are accessed from the B4229 Eglwyswrw to Haverfordwest road, along a gated farm track by the cattle grid at Tafarn y Bwlch ( Lat 51*58′; Long 4* 47′). During the recent Documentary The Lost Circle Revealed, shown on February 12th we saw evidence that supports the old folk legend that an original bluestone stone circle was once taken from the Preseli Hills of West Wales to Stonehenge. I would like to suggest some comments that may be useful in assessing this evidence and clearing up some unfortunate confusions that appear to have been made in the presentation of the material.

During the week following the documentary I  received and answered over 90 emails , and one of the main issues raised by these correspondences was a confusion as to just which of the involved stones formed the Waun Mawn referred to during the documentary. The OS map shows three separate areas where standing stones are marked. Below, I have included photographs of all three sites. The OS Map allocates this ‘title’ to the higher reaches of the prominent hill Cnwc y Hydd, yet there are extensive peat bogs down to the lower levels, and mawn means ‘peat’ in Welsh.

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The Recent Passing of Dr Euan MacKie

The recent passing of Dr Euan MacKie, together with the earlier passing (in April) of Dr Aubrey Burl,  and that of professor Keith Critchlow, brings to an end those stalwarts who were part of the surge of interest, during the 1960s and 70s, in archaeoastronomy, earth mysteries and a general quest to connect to our ancestors, to better understand the ancient world so as to include the new data that was pouring in from the work of those three professors, Gerald Hawkins, Alexander Thom, Fred Hoyle and those such as John Michell, whose lot it was to become part of, if not found, an alternative way of exploring  our ancient and prehistoric past, often tabbed  ‘the lunatic fringe’  within archaeological circles.

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