The Scottish Stone

Here we are, in the middle of August 2024, and over 100 years of received wisdom about the source of the Altar Stone at Stonehenge has appar...

@muminitaly There's certainly a connection between the sites - the earliest Orcadian Grooved Ware style pottery near Stonehenge is associated with the Bulford/Double Hedges neolithic pits dating to around 3000BCE. This is the same location as the "double henge" dating to around 2,900BCE, so very early for this style of monument in the south of Britain. See https://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue56/2/full-text.html
The Army Basing Programme, Stonehenge and the Emergence of the Sacred Landscape of Wessex

An appraisal of the evidence from the Army Basing Programme and other recent programmes of research around Stonehenge.