2023-10-05 11:00:07
The Altar Stone, the largest stone in the inner circle of Stonehenge, may have a much more distant origin than its monolithic neighbors. A new study challenges a 100-year-old idea regarding the stone’s origin, suggesting it may have come from the north of England. England in English) is one of the four constituent nations of the United Kingdom….) or even Scotland.
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A century ago, the British geologist Herbert Henry Thomas published a study on Stonehenge. He stated that the “blue stones” of the interior circle came from the hills of Preseli, in the country (country comes from the Latin pagus which designated a territorial subdivision and tribal extent…) of Wales. Richard Bevins, honorary professor of geology (Geology, from the ancient Greek γη- (gê-, “earth”) and…) at the University (A university is an establishment of higher education whose objective is. ..) from Aberystwyth in Wales, today calls this theory into question.
According to the new study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, the Altar Stone would come from a completely automatic place, or even by anglicism completion or …) different, perhaps an unknown quarry in the north of Great Britain (Great Britain is an island off the northwest coast of…).
Stonehenge, located in Wiltshire, southern England, was built around 4,000 to 5,000 years ago. The bluestones were brought to the site during an early construction phase.
Bluestones were considered “foreign” to the Wiltshire landscape. Their transport (Transport is the act of carrying something, or someone, from one place to another, most…) over a distance of 225 kilometers (The meter (symbol m, from the Greek metron, measure ) is the basic unit of length of the System…) is one of the longest ever recorded for a prehistoric monument. The Altar Stone is distinguished from other blue stones by its size and composition.
To identify the stone’s origin, researchers compared its geochemistry to 58 sandstone outcrops from south Wales to the west. (West is a cardinal point, opposite east. This is the direction towards which…) from England. No correspondence was found. Additionally, Altar Stone has a high barium content (Barium is a chemical element with symbol Ba and atomic number 56.), which helped narrow down potential sources.
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