Millennia-old Stonehenge riddle solved as answer to stone mystery finally discovered
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dailystar.co.ukScientists have solved an enduring mystery about Stonehenge after finally determining the exact place of origin of many of the megaliths that make up the famed monument.
The iconic structure was almost certainly built around 5,000 years ago, and it appears to have been built for mainly religious motives.Experts had previously been left baffled at where Stonehenge's pale-gray sandstone megaliths, known as sarsens, had come from – and how exactly they were transported there.Now, geochemical testing has indicated that 50 of 52 sarsens share a common origin about 15 miles (25 km) away at a site called West Woods on the edge of Wiltshire's Marlborough Downs, researchers have said.The sarsens were erected at Stonehenge around 2500 BC.
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