Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story:In a new study, scholars claim glacial ice played a role in getting the Altar Stone partway to the Salisbury Plain. The team modeled glacial movements and concluded that the large Altar Stone may have traveled from Scotland to the English shore via ice flow. Solving the mystery of how Stonehenge’s massive stones—including the 6.6-ton Altar Stone —arrived on the Salisbury Plain some 5,000 years ago remains a constant juggle of theories and studies. Geologists agree the Altar Stone was formed of sandstone from the sediments of ancient Lake Orcadie, in what’s now northeastern Scotland. “Dogger Bank represented a local topographic high point within the Doggerland region,” Veness wrote, “rich in archaeological evidence.”