The Stonehenge sarsens are traced to West Woods
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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Subjects
- Stonehenge · archaeological site · United Kingdom
Evidence
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Origins of the sarsen megaliths at Stonehenge
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.
Science Advances (AAAS); David J. Nash and colleagues · 2020-07 · Partly verified
Science Advances, vol. 6, article eabc0133 (2020)
Recorded on Stonehenge
- The sarsen circle and trilithons are raised at Stonehenge
- The Stonehenge sarsens are traced to West Woods
- The Altar Stone is traced to north-east Scotland
Related
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