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A BBC-funded excavation at Stonehenge may have uncovered the original reason for the site's existence say archaeologists. The breakthrough discovery occurred when the team dug through a layer of ground at the site containing sockets which once held bluestones, smaller stones which formed the structure of the original Stonehenge site. Professor Tim Darvill, of Bournemouth University, who is leading the excavation work along with Professor Geoff Wainwright, president of the Society of Antiquaries, said the bluestones had been transported 250km from the Preseli Hills in Wales to the Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, where taken to the site because people believed they had magical healing powers. Professor Geoffrey Wainwright theorised the original Stonehenge was a "Neolithic Lourdes".