sarsen stone

One of the most famous prehistoric sites in the world is Stonehenge in England. Remarkably a piece of the monument has been returned after going astray for over six decades. It is hoped that this item can help us to solve one of the greatest mysteries of Stonehenge, namely where did its gigantic standing stones come from. In 1958, archaeologists, “raised an entire fallen trilithon - a set of three large stones consisting of two that would have stood upright, with the third-placed horizontally across the top”, after it had fallen according to the BBC. However, during this operation, some fissures appeared on one of the upright stones, known as a sarsen stone. English Heritage decided to reinforce the block