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The Stonehenge sarsens are traced to West Woods

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Nash and colleagues publish a geochemical provenance study reporting that fifty of the fifty-two surviving sarsens share a signature matching West Woods in the Marlborough Downs, roughly 25 km north of the monument. It answers a question open since the 17th century, and it does so with instrumental chemistry rather than with typology.

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  1. Story
  2. Nash and colleagues publish a geochemical provenance study reporting that fifty of the fifty-two surviving sarsens share a signature matching West Woods in the Marlborough Downs, roughly 25 km north of the monument. It answers a question open since the 17th century, and it does so with instrumental chemistry rather than with typology.
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  4. Stonehenge
  5. The Stonehenge sarsens are traced to West Woods
  6. Connections
  7. Stonehenge
  8. World Heritage Committee
  9. Megalithic post-and-lintel construction
  10. The sarsen circle and trilithons are raised at Stonehenge
  11. The Stonehenge sarsens are traced to West Woods
  12. The Altar Stone is traced to north-east Scotland
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  14. Geochemical fingerprinting indicates that fifty of the fifty-two surviving sarsens at Stonehenge share a common source area at West Woods in the Marlborough Downs, roughly 25 km north of the monument. V55 verification basis: the paper is real and its result widely reported; it was not retrieved in this session and the article number should be confirmed.
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