Stonehenge: Six Ton Altar Stone Came from Scotland
August 14th, 2024Via: Daily Mail:
They’re the circle of stones that have left historians scratching their heads for centuries.
Now, experts have made a ‘stunning’ discovery about one of Stonehenge’s most famous rocks.
It has been known for a while that most of the monument’s world-renowned ‘bluestones’ were sourced from the Preseli Hills in Wales, around 240km (150 miles) from the site in Wiltshire.
But new analysis has revealed the Altar Stone, the largest bluestone at the centre of Stonehenge, actually came from northern Scotland – up to 1,000km (621 miles) away.
Experts have no idea why the six-tonne, 5m-long stone was selected, nor how it was transported such a long distance around 5,000 years ago.
We are all used to looking at Stonehenge as it is today and trying to figure out how it could have been built and how used. But what if it actually had had a completely different design and had had many parts that are now missing? Then it would be no wonder that we can’t make all that much sense out of what we see or archeologists’ explanations justifying what what they say.
In the nineteenth century, it was was stones all scattered on the ground. Then some archeologists decided to stand them up and circle them around because they assumed that was the most useful arrangement for them. Their arrangement has always looked unrealistic to me.
I wish someone with structural design software would try out every arrangement they can think of, given where the stones were originally lying, their weight and dimensions, etc. Also, a search should be (maybe has been?) carried out in a wide area around Stonehenge to see if stones matching them have been hauled off for use elsewhere and should be added to the new designs.
Let’s start with the real evidence, not archeology’s interpretation of it.
The only explanations I can conceive are (access to) technological prowess and/or highly developed pre-national social structures and, due to the glaring question of why such stones were chosen and the possibility the first two explanations are not actual, this last one: (access to) metaphysical prowess.