"If the Altar Stone came from one of the islands, it would have started its journey on water and would have involved marine and overland transport," Pearce said. "That's not a simple challenge." ...

This pagan altar stone is from there. The sandstone altar would have stood in the open air, the depression in the top would have been used for burning sacrifices. In the 1850's the altar was ...

The Altar Stone's journey likely involved both land and sea routes, with marine shipping being a plausible method given the challenging terrain. Simple boats of the era could have facilitated its ...

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 ...

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 ...

For more than a hundred years, scientists believed that Stonehenge’s central sandstone slab — long called the “altar stone" — came from much closer Wales. But a study last year by some of ...