Stonehenge rocks ‘carried by glaciers’

THE rocks of Stonehenge were not dragged by pagans but moved by glaciers, according to a team of Welsh academics.

Last week, a team of experts from University College London (UCL) claimed to have resolved the archaeological enigma, confirming that the stones were excavated and transported to Wiltshire from two sites in Pembrokeshire by our prehistoric ancestors.

The team of archaeologists and geologists said Carn Goedog and Craig Rhos-y-felin, both in the Preseli Hills, had definitely been quarried for the mysterious stones.

But in a conflicting report, Brian John, Dyfed ElisGruffydd and John Downes have published their own research in the Archaeology in

Wales journal, claiming there are “no traces of human intervention in any of the features that have made the archaeologists so excited”.

The group does not accept the idea of a Neolithic quarry in the Preseli Hills and says the supposed signs of “quarrying” by humans at Craig Rhos-y-felin were natural.

Dr John and his team are convinced that the debris at Stonehenge comes from glaciers that transported rocks east towards Salisbury Plain, where they were assembled.

The research describes a number of different land forms and sediments which can be related to the events of the Ice Age.

The paper states: “There is substantial evidence in favour of glacial transport and zero evidence in support of the human transport theory.”