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Constraining the provenance of the Stonehenge 'Altar Stone': Evidence from automated mineralogy and U–Pb zircon age dating
Richard E. Bevins, Duncan Pirrie, Rob A. Ixer et al., 2020. Journal of Archaeological Science.
First mineralogical and zircon work on Altar Stone fragments, showing it did not come from the Welsh sandstones long assumed.
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Bevins, R. E., Pirrie, D., Ixer, R. A., O'Brien, H., Parker Pearson, M., Power, M. R., & Shail, R. K. (2020). Constraining the provenance of the Stonehenge 'Altar Stone': Evidence from automated mineralogy and U–Pb zircon age dating. Journal of Archaeological Science. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2020.105188
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Bevins, Richard E. et al.. “Constraining the provenance of the Stonehenge 'Altar Stone': Evidence from automated mineralogy and U–Pb zircon age dating.” Journal of Archaeological Science (2020). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2020.105188.