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Stonehenge’s 6-ton altar stone may have traveled from Scotland by glacier
Recent research suggests that the six-ton Altar Stone at Stonehenge may have originated from a site in Scotland and been transported via glaciers to Dogger Bank, where it was then moved by prehistoric humans to Salisbury Plain. This finding highlights the complexities of ancient human mobility and the geological processes that contributed to the transportation of significant stones used in monumental architecture.
