subtitled: A New Study Suggests That the Altar Stone at Stonehenge Was Not Sourced From the Old Red Sandstone of the Anglo-welsh Basin as Previously Thought.Altar Stone – Image Credit : Professor Nick Pearce, Aberystwyth University
Posted on 10/22/2023 9:56:18 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
The Altar Stone, identified as Stone 80, is a recumbent central megalith within the Stonehenge monument from phase 3i sometime around 2600 BC.
The anomalous lithology of the Altar Stone led to the previous suggestion of a provenance from the Old Red Sandstone (ORS) of west Wales, close to where the majority of the bluestones have been sourced in the Preseli area some 225 km west of Stonehenge.
The Pembrokeshire bluestones, created through the crystallization of molten rock, are thought to be among the earliest stones placed at the Wiltshire site approximately 5,000 years ago...
The study has revealed that the Altar Stone has no comparable matches with any of the sample locations, indicating that the provenance lies elsewhere.
The study will now shift the focus of sampling towards the ORS (Old Red Sandstone) formations in the Midland Valley and Orcadian Basins of Scotland, along with the Permian-Triassic sandstones in northern England.
The objective is to determine if any of these sandstones exhibit a mineralogy and geochemistry that align with the characteristics of the Stonehenge Altar Stone to finally reveal the likely provenance.
(Excerpt) Read more at heritagedaily.com ...
subtitled: A New Study Suggests That the Altar Stone at Stonehenge Was Not Sourced From the Old Red Sandstone of the Anglo-welsh Basin as Previously Thought.Altar Stone – Image Credit : Professor Nick Pearce, Aberystwyth University
Used to be all guess and maybe and could be.
> The study will now shift the focus of sampling towards the ORS (Old Red Sandstone) formations in the Midland Valley and Orcadian Basins of Scotland, along with the Permian-Triassic sandstones in northern England.
i demand to know why the upper nile valley region was omitted from this candidate list?!
/s
All you have to do is look at the style of the formation, the lack of any uniform adhesion, and the almost precarious placement and the source of the things becomes apparent.
It’s from Ikea.
LOL
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