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EUREKA! Scientists Reveal Secret Behind Mysterious Rock Rumoured To Be 'The God's Dining Table'
Aug 3, 2020
Archaeologists believe they have solved the mystery of Stonehenge's huge upright stones, which have baffled scientists for years.
Researchers have worked out where the massive lintels came from, the heaviest of which weighs 30 tonnes - and it's not actually that far away.
New high-tech chemical tracing has found that the rocks actually came from a two square mile area of woodland, which lies just south of the village of Lockeridge, Wiltshire - about 15 miles away.
The smaller stones, called 'bluestones', were taken from the Preseli Hills in Wales, which are around 180 miles away
Scientists have long thought the big stones, made from sarsen, were taken from the Marlborough Downs, which is a large expanse of land that lies west of London.
The team of scientists said the new research was impossible prior to the discovery of the new technology.
One of them, David Nash from Brighton University, said: "Until recently we did not know it was possible to provenance a stone like sarsen.
"It has been really exciting to use 21st century science to understand the Neolithic past and answer a question that archaeologists have been debating for centuries."
Nash and the team used a technology called 'portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometry'.
To us, that is basically a scanner that lets you see how rocks are made up, chemically.
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