Skip to content

All

News

Sport

Culture

Lifestyle

Stonehenge near Amesbury, Wiltshire (AFP/Getty)

Geologists have ruled out another leading theory regarding the origin of Stonehenge ’s six-tonne Altar Stone after tests failed to match it to Scotland 's Orcadian Basin.

The sandstone monolith was originally believed to have come from Wales before a recent hypothesis suggested north-east Scotland, some 435 miles away.

An international team of scientists used advanced analytical techniques in the most comprehensive geological investigation of the Altar Stone to date.

Researchers from Aberystwyth University emphasised that narrowing down characteristics and eliminating potential locations brings them closer to solving the mystery.

Archaeologists confirmed that the search is ongoing to determine where the unique monolith originated before its journey to Salisbury Plain.

In full Mystery shrouds Stonehenge’s Altar Stone as theory debunked

Thank you for registering

Please refresh the page or navigate to…