Where Stonehenge came from – all those strange stones once the weight of more than a dozen blue whales – was one of its enduring mysteries. Possible sources included Africa, Ireland and Brittany, and here in Britain from Dartmoor to Edinburgh. A breakthrough occurred in the 1920s, when some of the megaliths were traced to Wales. This is so surprising, that the other, much larger stones are often overlooked. New science has confirmed that these had a closer origin, but getting them to the site was the greatest challenge facing Stonehenge’s Neolithic builders. Now we have an exact source for at least one megalith, we can try to map the route it took and explain how it was done

Mike’s new book, How to Build Stonehenge was released February 17 2022. Published by Thames & Hudson, it has many illustrations (including new photos and diagrams) and is the first book to focus exclusively and comprehensively on this theme since Herbert Stone’s The Stones of Stonehenge, published in 1924.

Mike Pitts is Mike Pitts is a writer and broadcaster, archaeologist (directing excavations at Stonehenge), one-time museum curator and award-winning journalist. He has been the editor of Britain’s leading archaeological magazine, British Archaeology for more than a decade. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.

Signed copies of How to Build Stonehenge will be available at the lecture and in the museum shop.