# Irish Sea ice carried the stones to or near Salisbury Plain and the builders collected erratics.

> Disputed: Irish Sea ice carried the stones to or near Salisbury Plain and the builders collected erratics.

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# Irish Sea ice carried the stones to or near Salisbury Plain and the builders collected erratics.

Irish Sea ice carried the stones to or near Salisbury Plain and the builders collected erratics.

**Disputed** Answers **1** questionPublished0

## Where it stands

**Disputed** One piece of evidence for, three against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- Glacial deposits or erratics of Preseli rock on or near Salisbury Plain.
- Bluestones with glacial surface features and a mix of lithologies matching an erratic train, not a few outcrops.

## What would rule it out

- Demonstration that no ice reached Salisbury Plain and that the bluestones derive from a few discrete, quarried outcrops.

## Evidence 1 for · 3 against

[The Newall boulder was proposed as a glacial erratic.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/stonehenge/evidence/EVD0CRWPFB827HD/the-newall-boulder-was-proposed-as-a-glacial-erratic)

Speculative

FOR

[Re-examination found no striations or glacial shaping on the boulder.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/stonehenge/evidence/EVD0CRWPFK25HQN/re-examination-found-no-striations-or-glacial-shaping-on-the)

Supported

AGAINST

[River sands draining Salisbury Plain carry local recycled zircons; one grain in 401 is near the 464 Ma…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/stonehenge/evidence/EVD0CRWPK88199K/river-sands-draining-salisbury-plain-carry-local-recycled)

Supported

AGAINST

[The bluestones derive from a small number of outcrops with quarrying evidence, not a dispersed erratic train.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/stonehenge/evidence/EVD0CRWPFTW34CR/the-bluestones-derive-from-a-small-number-of-outcrops-with)

Supported

AGAINST

## The questions it answers

[How did the bluestones get from the Preseli Hills to Salisbury Plain?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/stonehenge/questions/QST0CRWPCNA3XRK/how-did-the-bluestones-get-from-the-preseli-hills-to)

Most likelyPeople quarried the stones in Preseli and carried them to Wessex, overland or with a water stage, around 3000…

## Cite it

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Mysteries Department. (2026). Irish Sea ice carried the stones to or near Salisbury Plain and the builders collected erratics. [Answer ANS0CRWPF3E185T]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ANS0CRWPF3E185T
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**ANS** 0CRWPF3E185T

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