Stonehenge is partly Scottish, scientists have revealed, after investigations found the mysterious Altar Stone at the heart of the stone circle originated near Orkney. Archaeologists already knew ...

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 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 ...

This included the Scottish origin of the six-tonne Altar Stone and later confirmed that all stones featured in Stonehenge were brought to Salisbury Plain from far away. This long journey ...

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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Stonehenge is one of the world’s most famous monuments. It stands on Salisbury Plain, in Wiltshire, and its giant stones can be seen from miles around. It took a huge effort to build Stonehenge ...

It’s home to the country’s densest concentration of Neolithic remains — among them, the blockbuster that is Stonehenge — and a scattering of 13 giant white horses carved into hillsides ...