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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Science
Alex Ross

Stonehenge builders used wooden tracks ‘like a railway’ to transport huge stones

The most realistic image of the building of Stonehenge has been created, revealing for the first time how stones were pulled along wooden tracks “like a sort of railway” to the monument.

The World Heritage Site was built 5,000 years ago, first with the placing of bluestones transported from the Preseli Hills in Wales, and then, hundreds of years later, it was altered with the arrival of huge sarsen stones to create the iconic stone circle.

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