Recent findings show that Stonehenge’s stones came from all over Britain – and this offers clues to the monument’s purpose, say archaeologists Stonehenge may have been erected explicitly to unite early farming communities across the island of Britain at a time of cultural stress, argues Mike Parker Pearson, professor of British later prehistory at University College … Continue reading Stonehenge may have been built to unite early British farming communities. Experts believe monument had a political purpose as it was created with rocks from all corners of ancient Britain.