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Stonehenge megalith came from Scotland, not Wales, ‘jaw-dropping’ study finds - In a discovery described by one of the scientists involved as “genuinely shocking”, new analysis has found that the largest “bluestone” at Stonehenge was dragged or floated to the site from the very north-east corner of Scotland – a distance of at least 466 miles (about 750km).
A Scottish provenance for the Altar Stone of Stonehenge
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Weeks after revelation that megalith came from Scotland, researchers make surprise discovery
“doesn’t just alter what we think about Stonehenge, it alters what we think about the whole of the late Neolithic”, said Rob Ixer, an honorary senior research fellow at University College London (UCL) and one of the experts behind the study “It completely rewrites the relationships between the Neolithic populations of the whole of the British Isles. The science is beautiful and it’s remarkable, and it’s going to be discussed for decades to come … It is jaw-dropping.”