Kirkland and his fellow researchers examined three ways the altar stone could have traveled from Scotland to Stonehenge. The first is that it was carried by glacial ice movement during the Ice Age ...

“The similarities in architecture and material culture between the Stonehenge area and northern Scotland now make more sense. It [has] helped to solve the puzzle of why these distant places had ...

The Altar Stone at the center of Stonehenge, long believed to have been hauled to southwest England from Wales, was actually transported more than 450 miles from northeastern Scotland, a team of ...

The six-tonne Altar Stone at the heart of Stonehenge came from the far north of Scotland rather than south-west Wales as previously thought, new analysis has found. The discovery shows the ...

"The similarities in architecture and material culture between the Stonehenge area and northern Scotland now make more sense. "It helped to solve the puzzle of why these distant places had ...

Stonehenge was likely built as a project to unify ancient peoples from across the whole of the country, archaeologists claim in a new study. The research, published on Thursday in the journal ...

Previous research has shown cultural connections — such as similarities in pottery styles — between the area around Stonehenge and Scotland’s Orkney Islands. Other stones at Stonehenge came ...

“The similarities in architecture and material culture between the Stonehenge area and northern Scotland now make more sense. It’s helped to solve the puzzle of why these distant places had ...

would find their ultimate expression at Stonehenge. Why Orkney of all places? How did this scatter of islands off the northern tip of Scotland come to be such a technological, cultural ...

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