Stonehenge altar stone from Scotland

evidence please?

A team at Curtin university analysed the chemical composition of fragments of rock that had fallen off the Altar Stone at Stonehenge, and dated them. The composition and date are unique to rocks from different parts of the world, rather like a fingerprint. The Australian team had access to one of the most comprehensive global rock fingerprint databases and found the best match was from the Orcadian Basin, which includes the Caithness, Orkney, and Moray Firth regions of north-eastern Scotland.
www.bbc.com/news/articles/c207lqdn755o

I was just in Orkney in May to visit Skara Brae, a Neolithic archaeological site circa 3200 BC that predates Stonehenge. The farming and fishing occupants of Skara Brae lived there for 500 years and it is not known why they disappeared or where they went. Besides the fact that Stonehenge's altar stone originated in the Orcadian Basin, I wonder if there is a deeper Skara Brae connection to Stonehenge.

the point dear sandy is they were also the ancestors and progenitors of the western and Central European peoples , and the eu mention was a dig at vinny , because neither did the name or idea of britian exist at the time. Unless you can prove otherwise .?

The points as ever are many and varied. Ancient Britain was  ancient Britain, the geographical location has not changed even if much else has. The peoples of Britain form a collective unit no matter how arrived at in history with all the alliances, invasions, deals, plots, internecine fighting and long lived feuds. What changes in the modern world is that 'the people' post WW1 and even more so post WW2 were invited to make their views known on how to run the country through the ballot box. In order to do that successfully what was needed was a generally homogeneous society of differences but many similarities. There is a continuous process to somehow belittle the British people as a group to falsify their existence and deride their origins. The whole human world has arisen from some form of immigration and movement of peoples, it matters little. What is existent is what matters and now more so than ever are there deliberate moves to destroy what exists outside of the democratic process. The whole idea of prehistory points scoring is to assist in this process.

If you think this is even remotely true you have a truly shocking lack of understanding of the basic facts of Pre-Modern British History.

Ancient Britain arguably started with the ending of the Devensian Glaciation "Ice Age" that ended approximately 125,000 years ago; though Human habitation of Britain goes much further back to about 800,000 years.

There was also the Last Glacial Maximum, that started receding 27,000 years ago and and had completely disappeared by 11,300 years ago.

Though it might be argued that in accordance with academic convention this should be called Pre-Historic Britain. The convention being that Pre-Historic refers to that period before writing had developed, and Ancient refers to the period after writing was developed; but this causes an anomaly with Britain, because the Druids forbade writing British the Pre-Historic period coincides with Continental Ancient period. To get around this we can class Pre-History as the "Lithic periods" (Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic) and the Ancient period as starting with the Bronze Age and on into the Iron Age.  However, there's also a discrepancy here with the Bronze Age and Iron Age emerging earlier the closer you get to the Eastern Mediterranean and Levant areas, and later as head North and West through Europe.

The Bronze age in Britain was approximately 2500 BC to 700 BC, with the Iron Age following on until the Roman Invasion of AD43 - which, with the Romans bringing writing with them, might realistically be the first time that Britain could be said to have been in the Ancient History period.

I also take issue with your "the geographical location has not changed".
If you mean the shape of the British landmass you are incorrect; Britain was physically connected to "mainland Europe" as recently as 8,200 years ago; when Mesolithic Hunter Gatherers lived on and traversed the area known as Doggerland, there is some evidence of long distance trade from the Mesolithic and Neolithic periods with Baltic Amber being traded for Greenstone Axeheads from Polstrong Cornwall.

So I have to ask: what do you mean by "Ancient Britain"?

What time period are we looking at here?

Britain did not form a "collective unit" until the reign of King Athelstan (924-939); the United Kingdom did not form a single socio-political entity until the Acts Of Union in 1707.

All The Best

classical sandy retort , garbled waffle that I see even pro veritas has called you out on . 



vague ambiguous nonsense. In the neolithic , and beaker periods we are talking about , neither you nor I know the name these islands were called , but they weren't called "britian". Britian was a name invented by the romans thousands of years after the end of the neolithic period.


yet more garbled nonsense.  These islands have only existed for 8000 years.


define collective unit. 


nonsense. The idea of modern britian as a concept in terms of a unified multi national state is barely three hundred years old politically speaking , and four hundred as a multi national kingdom. barely a small footnote in history in terms of the timescale we are talking about.

 Modern peoples of the uk are not genetically descended from the neolithic people. we descend mainly from the beaker peoples of Europe and their descendants . At not one point in history has this island been a unified homogenous country  .

Small point , not true. Athelstan formed the kingdom of england for the first time in history , not britian. England is a small country that makes up 40 % of the land in these islands , and during athelstans reign , a minority of the population , of which arguably around 60 % or more were Celtic , not English.

Athelstan , in ancient texts from the anglo saxons , was an enemy of the british ( the British of his time were the welsh , the Cornish , various Britons living in Devon and western england , and those in cumbria , and what is now southern scotland roughly around what is now modern Lanarkshire )

 Athelstan even laid down a famous law forbidding saxons from intermarrying or mating with and I quote" the filthy British race" and from memory expelled all britons from what is now the western border of the modern county of Devon , setting the new English border at the river Tamar.