The 6-tonne stone at the centre of Stonehenge may have come from a location in Scotland more than 700km away from its final placement, new research has suggested. The Altar Stone was long believed to have come from Wales, but may have been transported via sea, according to research led by Curtin University and published in science journal Nature. The …
Stonehenge, in Wiltshire, England, was constructed around 5,000 years ago, with stones forming different circles brought to the site at different times. For more than a hundred years, scientists believed that Stonehenge’s central sandstone slab — long called the “altar stone” — came from much closer Wales. Stonehenge was constructed around 5,000 years ago, with stones forming different circles brought …
The central stone of the famous British monument came from 750km away in Scotland, and not Wales as previously thought. At the centre of Stonehenge lies the Altar Stone, a hefty slab of sandstone whose origin and purpose have been among the famed megalithic monument’s enduring mysteries for nearly 5,000 years. Using chemical analysis, they determined that the Altar Stone …
