'Stonehenge's secret revealed at last': Ice Age man was drawn nearby pools which never froze over

• Warm spring is just walking distance from the stones
• They explain why mesolithic settlers were in the area
• Post ice-age wildlife would have flocked to the water

The age-old secret of why Stonehenge was built where it was can now be revealed, according to historians.

The reason for the stone monument's location has remained one of the great unsolved mysteries of British prehistory, with no one theory accepted as correct.

But now a team of scientists working in Amesbury, a short distance from where the landmark sits on a hillside, believe the discovery of a warm water spring could be the key to solving the riddle.

A small series of shallow pools close to Stonehenge have remained undisturbed for tens of thousands of years.

Hidden in a private estate and surrounded by trees, the inconspicuous plot which sits alongside the A303 in Amesbury, is believed to be a mesolithic landscape dating back to 7,596BC.

It is fed by a spring which keeps the pools warm at a constant 11 degrees, even during the depths of winter.

Scientists visited the site in 2010 when temperatures were sub-zero and found that the water remained unaffected by the surrounding snow.

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