According to English Heritage, the Altar Stone is a large slab of greenish Old Red Sandstone. Recent geological research had pinpointed the source of the stone to the Brecon Beacons area of southeast ...

provided a near-perfect match with the Altar Stone, suggesting a Scottish origin. “This discovery rewrites what we know about Stonehenge,” said Anthony Clarke, lead author and PhD student at C ...

Stonehenge, the famous megalith in Wiltshire, England has puzzled experts for centuries. Even today, it presents more ...

Stonehenge offers mysteries aplenty. Just when we think we’ve solved one, we have to re-solve questions we thought were already answered. Such is the case with the origin story of the Altar Stone—one ...

For more than a hundred years, scientists believed that Stonehenge's central sandstone slab — long called the ''altar stone" — came from much closer Wales. But a study last year by some of the ...

The researchers therefore hypothesize that Stonehenge was an effort to bring together far-flung communities on the island, by building with the most magnificent rocks from each. The Altar Stone ...

In 1839, a naval officer named Captain Beamish dug out an estimated 400 cubic feet of soil from the northeast of the Altar Stone at Stonehenge. As Parker Pearson notes in his book Stonehenge, ...

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