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To identify the altar stone’s source, archaeologists and geologists analysed a share broken off in 1844
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“Even by fashionable standards, John O’Groats to Wiltshire is a bit of a scoot,” said Hannah Devlin in The Guardian. Walking a stable eight hours a day, you may conceal the nearly 500 miles in ten days – and that’s without dragging a tall slab of stone at the back of you. So the revelation that Stonehenge’s central altar stone – a six-tonne, 5-metre-long rectangular share of sandstone – arrived at the location around 4,500 years ago no longer from south Wales, as had beforehand been understanding, but from the far northeast of Scotland, is, by any standards, astonishing.
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