How did Stonehenge's 6-ton, 16-foot altar stone travel 435 miles from northeast Scotland to Salisbury Plain? A new study in the Journal of Quaternary Science proposes a glacier carried it part of the way—to Dogger Bank in the North Sea. Ancient Britons would have hauled it the rest.
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The megalithic altar at the center of stonehenge could have arrived at the site via glacial floes, a new study suggests