Researchers believe a glacier transported Stonehenge’s six-tonne Altar Stone from northeast Scotland to the now-submerged landscape of Doggerland, leaving Neolithic communities to complete the final leg of its remarkable journey. During the last glacial period, between about 33,000 and 11,700 years ago, large ice sheets moved across Britain and carried rocks over considerable distances. The researchers modelled ancient ice flows and concluded that glaciers could have moved th... [1676 chars]
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