New theory on how six-tonne Stonehenge rock was transported from Scotland thousands of years ago - on a glacier
Researchers have proposed a new theory suggesting that the Altar Stone at Stonehenge was transported from Scotland to England via glacial movement rather than human effort. The study uses numerical modeling to track how ice sheets could have carried the six-tonne rock during the last ice age.
muratart/Shutterstock Built from stones weighing between 2 and 25 tonnes, the structure of Stonehenge demonstrates a scale of construction hard to imagine before the invention of the wheel. The mystery deepens when you consider that the stones are not from the local bedrock. So why these stones, and how did they get there?
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