The new study, published in the Journal of Archeological Science, shows that the makeup of the monolith from Stonehenge is different from the stones in Orkney, which was recently thought to be the origin of the altar stone. The type of rock that is available in the Orkney Islands, termed by geologists as Old Red Sandstone (ORS), isn’t consistent with the rock in the monolith stone at Stonehenge, the study suggests. The monolith stone from Stonehenge also has lower levels of K-Feldspar, an abundant mineral in Orkney, demonstrating that the stone didn’t come from the area.
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