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A Scottish provenance for the Altar Stone of Stonehenge

Anthony J. I. Clarke, Christopher L. Kirkland, Richard E. Bevins et al., 2024. Nature.

Ages of detrital zircon, apatite and rutile in Altar Stone fragments match the Old Red Sandstone of the Orcadian Basin in north-east Scotland, at least 750 km from Stonehenge, and exclude Wales and England.

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The 2024 Altar Stone finding; its supplementary tables are the isotope dataset.

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Clarke, A. J. I., Kirkland, C. L., Bevins, R. E., Pearce, N. J. G., Glorie, S., & Ixer, R. A. (2024). A Scottish provenance for the Altar Stone of Stonehenge. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07652-1
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