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Stonehenge

Stonehenge
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LocationSalisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom
Conventional dateHenge about 3000 BCE; sarsens about 2500 BCE; Mesolithic posts nearby about 8500–7650 BCE.
Alternative date proposalsNone with significant published support that we know of.
What is measured
  • Altar Stone sourced from the Orcadian Basin, north-east Scotland, at least 750 km away. [1]
  • Mesolithic post-holes in the old car park. [4]

New provenance work keeps lengthening the distances stones travelled. The site's ritual use of the landscape began thousands of years before the stones.

Claims about this site

ClaimStatusVerdict
Stonehenge's Altar Stone came from northern ScotlandMainstreamMeasured: from at least 750 km away

Sources

  1. Clarke, A. J. I. et al. (2024). A Scottish provenance for the Altar Stone of Stonehenge. Nature 632. doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07652-1 data
  2. Parker Pearson, M. et al. (2025). Stonehenge and its Altar Stone: the significance of distant stone sources. Archaeology International 27. doi:10.14324/ai.27.1.13 background
  3. English Heritage: A timeline of Stonehenge. https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/stonehenge/history-a… background
  4. Historic England Heritage Gateway: possible Mesolithic pits/post-holes, Stonehenge old car park. https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/heritage-gateway/results/recor… data

Dates are summarised in our own words from the sources listed. Conventional and alternative dates are both reported; "measured" lists only dated or documented findings. Methodology.