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Stonehenge mystery is possibly SOLVED after 5,000 years – as scientists finally crack how enigmatic boulder was transported from Wales

25 07 2025

It’s the monument that has baffled scientists for hundreds of years. But now, experts may have finally solved one of Stonehenge’s greatest mysteries.

Boulders at Stonehenge were taken to the monument’s site by humans, rather than dragged there by glaciers, new scientific research claims.

The ancient monument, near Salisbury in south-west England, was built with stones from all parts of Great Britain, including the smaller bluestone megaliths, most of which came from north Pembrokeshire, 140 miles (225km) away.

While many archaeologists believe the smaller bluestones from the Preseli Hills were transported by humans, others believe they were transported by glacial ice long before Stonehenge was built.

Now, a research team at Aberystwyth University says its work shows there is “no evidence” to support the ice transport theory.

The bluestones are believed to have been among the first erected at the Wiltshire site about 5,000 years ago.

The team’s work focused on the so-called Newall Boulder, a 22x15x10cm rock excavated at Stonehenge in 1924 orginally from Craig Rhos-y-Felin in Pembrokeshire.

The boulder is now in the collection of the Salisbury Museum.

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