Building Stonehenge: What Happened in Wiltshire: A Talk by Mike Pitts

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The only stone on Salisbury Plain seems to be chalk. Where Stonehenge came from - once the weight of a dozen blue whales was one of its enduring mysteries: proposals ranged from Africa, Ireland and Brittany to Dartmoor and Edinburgh.

A key breakthrough occurred in the 1920s, when some of the megaliths were traced to Wales. This is so surprising that the other, much larger stones are often overlooked.

New science has confirmed that these sarsens had a closer origin, but getting them to the site was arguably the greatest challenge facing the builders of Stonehenge. Now we have an exact source for at least one megalith, we can try to map the route it took and explain how it was done.

In his talk, Mike Pitts will draw on on a lifetime's study, a decade of new research and his new book, How to Build Stonehenge to address the question - how was Stonehenge built?

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