What a drag! Stonehenge’s stones were moved 150 miles over land

FOR centuries, Britons have pondered the mystery of Stonehenge’s creation.

But archaeologists may just have cracked it – after finding tools used to build the monument in quarries likened to a ‘Neolithic Ikea’.

The discovery would debunk the popular theory that the giant bluestones came via the sea from Wales to Salisbury Plain – with scientists now believing they must have been carried almost 150 miles over land.

Hammers and wedges used to prise the pillars were uncovered on the north side of the Preseli hills in Pembrokeshire, Wales, where rocks have been chemically matched to Stonehenge.

It is thought the pillars were not floated along the Bristol Channel and up the River Avon – as was previously suggested – as this would have meant dragging the stones up the hills and down the other side.

Professor Mike Parker Pearson, who led the scientists from University College London, said the findings take us ‘closer to unlocking Stonehenge’s greatest mystery – why its stones came from so far away’.