I came across this reconstructed ice limit -- from a 1978 paper by Gilbertson and Hawkins. ("The Pleistocene Succession at Kenn, Somerset," Gilbertson DS and Hawkins AB, Bull Geol Surv GB 66, 41 pp.) So Geoff Kellaway was by no means alone in suggesting that ice came in from the Bristol Channel and extended right across the Somerset Levels.
The authors seem to be suggesting here that the ice advance was blocked by the edge of the chalk escarpment.
For comparative purposes, I have superimposed the G+H map onto the image showing the modelled maximum extent of the Devensian ice in SW England (BRITICE Project).
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....
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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
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