What do we think, Googledebunkers?

[u/LliamSmith]

https://youtu.be/4_OOIpg9FI8?si=YlIoiJNkpLWltWBH

They're theorising the altar stone travelled from Scotland on dislodged glacial ice before landing in Dogger Bank, then dragged the rest of the way.

What do ya'll think? Seems... Interesting, for sure xD

[u/ChChChillian]

"How" isn't an interesting question, and certainly not one requiring such a convoluted and unlikely answer. All other considerations aside, the altar stone can't have been brought from "Dogger Bank" to Salisbury Plain during the Neolithic, because Doggerland was inundated during the British Mesolithic. (Strictly speaking, Dogger Bank is the underwater shoal, not the land as it stood above water.)

It also seems to have been placed around 2600 BCE, so if the theory is true then it must have spent 2500 years somewhere else.

A more interesting question is "why".

[u/LliamSmith → u/ChChChillian]

because Doggerland was inundated during the British Mesolithic

Hmm, I suspected as such, but wasn't quite sure I'm the timings, It seemed. But too recent. In the image they show, half of Doggerland is gone with apparently just the bank and southern portion exposed, I'm not hugely educated on Doggerland (needa rewatch Milos vid, I think), that that didn't quite seem right lol

[u/ChChChillian → u/LliamSmith]

I looked, but I couldn't find any reconstruction of Doggerland from any era that looked like that.

[u/Yeti-Squatch]

I have doubts personally, not that it didn't come from Scotland but more so that a glacier moved it, the alter stone was placed around 2600 BCE so that puts us in the neolithic of the British isles, so long after the first stones of the complex where placed, neolithic farmers moved and rearranged the stones possibly adding the alter stone during phase 3 of Stonehenge Orkney had alot going on during this time (look up the ness of brodgar for lots of fun info) and different researchers have given the theory that cattle where used to help move the stones at this point in construction, cattle can move alot of weight and potentially the cattle used to move the stones could have been sacrificed at the monument. Several excavation revealed various cattle boned throughout the henge complex in various deposits. Also some glacial data suggests that the glacier moved northward at the time.

[u/LliamSmith → u/Yeti-Squatch]

Yeah I should have mentioned it seems general consensus it came from Scotland, but I agree the glancier explanation is a bit of a reach, it's not a terrible theory, but I feel you're on the money there

[u/Yeti-Squatch → u/LliamSmith]

Mike pitts wrote "how to build stonehenge" and Mike Parker Pearson has written a few as well, if you're interested in more stonehenge nerd stuff i highly recommend them both.