Mike Pitts

Mike Pitts is a journalist and archaeologist who specialises in the study of British prehistory. He is the author of several books, including How to Build Stonehenge (Thames & Hudson 2022).

How was the Stonehenge Altar Stone moved from Scotland?

I’ve had a keen interest in Stonehenge since I directed my first excavation there more than 40 years ago. A personal highlight was identifying a skeleton in London’s Natural History Museum, which archaeologists thought had been destroyed in the Blitz, and which turned out to be the remains of an Anglo-Saxon man beheaded beside the stone