The focal point of these festivities is the Altar Stone—the six-ton sandstone slab that lies flat at the center of Stonehenge. Phys.org Story by Anthony Clarke, Chris Kirkland, Stijn Glorie ...

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A geological study of the Altar Stone shows it likely came from Orcadian Basin, Scotland, at least 466 miles from Stonehenge, researchers said in a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature.

As the quest to find the origins of Stonehenge’s Altar Stone heats up, researchers rule out one Scottish site that appeared to have a direct link to the monument.

New research has overturned a century-old belief about the origins of Stonehenge’s famous Altar Stone. The new study shows that the six-tonne sandstone block, which forms the centerpiece of the ...

The centre of solstice activities at Stonehenge is the Altar Stone – a large sandstone slab of uncertain origins. Our new work has found a match for it all the way in Scotland.

Researchers may have solved a Stonehenge mystery — and raised another. They say its central Altar Stone somehow got to England from Scotland, hundreds of miles farther away than originally thought.

Experts are abuzz over a new report stating that the Altar Stone — one of the site’s most mysterious pieces — was transported from Scotland prior to the invention of the wheel. Oli Scarff / SWNS ...

Near the center of the roughly 5,000-year-old circular monument known as Stonehenge is a six-ton, rectangular chunk of red sandstone. In Arthurian legend, the so-called Altar Stone was part of the ...

One of the many archaeological mysteries at Britain’s Stonehenge has been solved. The site’s six-ton Altar Stone hails from over 400 miles north in Scotland, not from Wales or other closer ...

United Kingdom Stonehenge’s ‘altar stone’ originally came from Scotland and not Wales, new research shows The 16-foot stone was brought to its site from northeast Scotland, over 460 miles away ...