Its official, there ours!
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Only one of the stones - most of them are English.
Stonehenge: Central Altar Stone from Scotland not Wales
Stonehenge's famous Altar Stone came from Scotland not Wales as previously thought, new analysis shows.
www.bbc.co.uk
All that’s needed now is one from Ireland and we have a 5000 year old antecedent of the United Kingdom 🤣
Ahh, but that's the main stone.Only one of the stones - most of them are English.
Stonehenge: Central Altar Stone from Scotland not Wales
Stonehenge's famous Altar Stone came from Scotland not Wales as previously thought, new analysis shows.www.bbc.co.uk
Yes but we’ve been storing them for you, the storage bill is in the post! 😂
Good luck with getting paid for that one🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Well at least we got The Stone of Scone back.
www.historicenvironment.scot
The Stone of Destiny; 13th century; Medieval; Edinburgh Castle | HES
The Stone of Destiny – also known as the Stone of Scone – is an ancient symbol of Scotland’s monarchy.
Never had any interest in looking at a bunch of rocks that have no meaning whatsoever. At least the Zimbabwe Ruins is more interesting!
It’s not just the henge that I find interesting but the whole surrounding area with its ancient earthworks and Durrington Walls; where in fact there aren’t any walls.
Actually - many are Welsh...Only one of the stones - most of them are English.
Stonehenge: Central Altar Stone from Scotland not Wales
Stonehenge's famous Altar Stone came from Scotland not Wales as previously thought, new analysis shows.www.bbc.co.uk
What a learning curve. It’s “multi national😇
Some lithologies are linked with Neolithic quarrying sites in the Mynydd Preseli area of west Wales7,8. An unnamed Lower Palaeozoic sandstone, associated with the west Wales area on the basis of acritarch fossils9, is present only as widely disseminated debitage at Stonehenge and possibly as buried stumps (Stones 40g and 42c).
Fig. 1: The layout of Stonehenge and the appearance of the Altar Stone.
Some lithologies are linked with Neolithic quarrying sites in the Mynydd Preseli area of west Wales7,8. An unnamed Lower Palaeozoic sandstone, associated with the west Wales area on the basis of acritarch fossils9, is present only as widely disseminated debitage at Stonehenge and possibly as buried stumps (Stones 40g and 42c).
Fig. 1: The layout of Stonehenge and the appearance of the Altar Stone.
The big ones came from the Fyfield area near Avebury. The smaller ones came from south wales. If you park up on the Ridgeway from A4 east of Avebury you can go into the ancient field system and if you know where to look there is a Sarsen stone with grooves in it where axe heads were formed and honed. An astonishingly interesting area and one not visited by many grockles from Avebury.
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I wonder what the cost was for finding out where the stones came from as in a month's time no will will care where they come from as long as they can gawk at some upright stones. Castles with history are far more interesting. Maybe the stones came from Easter Island and are related? 
Apart from the Altar stone which has recently been determined as from Scotland, the source of the others has been known for many years. Like most research there are costs, but to a geologist it was probably not that onerous a task. I’m fascinated by the history of how they were potentially transported, plus the recent discoveries relating to the size of population living nearby to service the Henge and other artefacts. An ancient version of HPC.I wonder what the cost was for finding out where the stones came from as in a month's time no will will care where they come from as long as they can gawk at some upright stones. Castles with history are far more interesting. Maybe the stones came from Easter Island and are related?
There was an excellent BBC documentary on the source of the Bluestones a few years ago. I just found the link on i-Player
Thank you I’ve saved that to watch. Prof Alice Roberts……….. my Profs were never that attractive. Only had one female prof at Loughborough and she lectured on Design. But we disagreed when I told her I thought her car was ugly. An NSU Prinz.
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