Stonehenge Prehistoric Site: Latest Updates
This evening I am reporting on two recent developments concerning the history and archaeology of the Stonehenge site. The area around Stonehenge has been described as "the most studied archaeological landscape on earth." By way of a quick recap, Stonehenge lies about ninety miles west of London, near the ancient English city of Salisbury.A history of the complex site can be found here. The monument is mainly comprised of stones carved from two types of rock: 'sarsens' which are grey-green stones sourced from the locality and 'bluestones' (smaller pillars which stand in a rough circle) which are thought to have been sourced from the Preseli Hills in West Wales, a distance of some 220 miles. It is believed the 'bluestones' originally totalled eighty of which forty-three remain. These stones weigh between two and four tons each. For the last one hundred years or so experts had postulated that the bluestones were extracted from t...