Article 6PZAS Stonehenge megalith came from Scotland, not Wales, ‘jaw-dropping’ study finds

Stonehenge megalith came from Scotland, not Wales, ‘jaw-dropping’ study finds

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Esther Addley
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Monument's largest bluestone' moved more than 450 miles - a discovery researchers say rewrites relationships between Neolithic populations

For more than a century, archaeologists have known that some of the stones at Stonehenge came from Wales and were transported - somehow - about 125 miles ( 200km) to the site of the Neolithic monument on Salisbury Plain.

Now, a jaw-dropping" study has revealed that one of Stonehenge's central megaliths is not Welsh at all - it is actually Scottish.

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