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As far as my research has shown me the Altar Stone originated near the Wheeling Steen farm in Westray Island, Orkney. During 2022 and 2023 I spent months looking at the rocks on each of the islands of Orkney to find a visual match of size, colour, micaceous grain size, and surface patterning. Although Birsay and Rousay has similar stones I am convinced that the Altar Stone was a stone washed up onto the land by the winter Atlantic storms at Aikerness, Westray Island. I have spent three years considering how sea transport could take it to Stonehenge and have come to the conclusion that it would only take 72 days of using the tides with only 20 men to accomplish the feat. It would not be a difficult or dangerous task.
Tom Bennett
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