Stonehenge rocks in place 'millions of years before humans'

Expert claims largest rocks at megalithic monument were not moved there by people

Stonehenge, South West of England
(Image credit: LEON NEAL/AFP/Getty)

Two of Stonehenge's largest stones were in place there for millions of years before Neolithic people built the monument, according to the site’s former director of excavations.

In a new paper published in the journal British Archaeology, Mike Pitts argues that two of the largest sarsens - the sandstone boulders that make up Stonehenge - have always been “more or less” where they sit today.

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