Since glaciers didn’t flow right into Salisbury, the study speculates the stone, thought to have served as an altar, was deposited hundreds of miles east, beneath what is now the North Sea.
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Devorah Lauter,
ARTnews.com,
4 June 2026
Anybody who chose this option had to walk past the altar to the front of the church, where the priest waited in a small room.
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