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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Sunday, 24 October 2010
Erratic speculations
Three pictures from at area that might be expected to supply erratic material into the Irish Sea Glacier as it flowed across this area on its way towards Salisbury Plain. Top: one of the tors on the ridge crest.
Middle: a perched block (locally derived) on the same tor. Below: rocky outcrop (one of many) in among the gnarled oak trees of Tycanol Wood. In the lower part of the wood, the rocks are partly rhyolites. The tors are made of dolerite.
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