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...
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Tuesday, 27 October 2009
New search facility
Since this blog now has a lot of entries, I have added a search facility. Seems to work OK -- feel free to try it out!
2 comments:
Anonymous
said...
NO lets leave the term bluestone to mean any Stonehenge orthostats lithology that is NOT sarsen.
You and I may want to do that, but it's too late! What about fragments and flakes at Stonehenge that may or may not be related to orthostats / monoliths? What about bits and pieces from the Cursus or the Avenue or even Bluestonehenge? Is the Boles Barrow boulder of spotted dolerite not to be called a bluestone simply because it isn't at Stonehenge? We are stuck with that wretched term......
2 comments:
NO lets leave the term bluestone to mean any Stonehenge orthostats lithology that is NOT sarsen.
You and I may want to do that, but it's too late! What about fragments and flakes at Stonehenge that may or may not be related to orthostats / monoliths? What about bits and pieces from the Cursus or the Avenue or even Bluestonehenge? Is the Boles Barrow boulder of spotted dolerite not to be called a bluestone simply because it isn't at Stonehenge? We are stuck with that wretched term......
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