Stonehenge megalith came from Scotland, not Wales, ‘jaw-dropping’ study finds

A team of scientists tested the chemical composition and the age of minerals within one of the monument’s stones. Photograph: Heritage Image Partnership Ltd/Alamy

For more than a century, archaeologists have known that some of the stones at Stonehenge came from Wales and were transported – somehow – about 125 miles ( 200km) to the site of the Neolithic monument on Salisbury Plain.

Now, a “jaw-dropping” study has revealed that one of Stonehenge’s central megaliths is not Welsh at all – it is actually Scottish.