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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Wednesday, 5 May 2010
Inside the Last Glaciation Limit
Ice-smoothed slabs on the northern face of Carningli. This sort of feature is difficult to date, except maybe with the aid of cosmogenic dating, but here the surface appears fresh, so I would hazard a guess that the smoothing was done by Devensian (Last Glaciation) ice -- thus matching this feature with the Pont Ceunant moraine described in the last couple of days.
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