How much do we know about Stonehenge? Less than we think. And what has Stonehenge got to do with the Ice Age? More than we might think. This blog is mostly devoted to the problems of where the Stonehenge bluestones came from, and how they got from their source areas to the monument. Now and then I will muse on related Stonehenge topics which have an Ice Age dimension...
THE BOOK
Some of the ideas discussed in this blog are published in my new book called "The Stonehenge Bluestones" -- available by post and through good bookshops everywhere. Bad bookshops might not have it....
To order, click HERE
Some of the ideas discussed in this blog are published in my new book called "The Stonehenge Bluestones" -- available by post and through good bookshops everywhere. Bad bookshops might not have it....
To order, click HERE
Tuesday, 9 June 2009
That picture
In case anybody wonders where that photo was taken in the post before last, it is possibly a "sub-neolithic" burial chamber -- or what is left of it -- at Carn Meini. Locally it is known as The Altar Stone -- and some of the locals think it was used for Druidical sacrifices! So cultures and ages are all mixed up. Probably it is a Neolithic or Bronze Age feature -- one of many in the eastern part of Mynydd Preseli.
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