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
Sunday, 10 August 2014
Glacial features in South-West England (1)
I came across these two moody photos from a field trip in Devon and Somerset. The top one shows the Devil's Punchbowl on Exmoor (thought to have been the location for a small glacier during the Devensian Glaciation) and the lower ones shows the coastal edge of the Valley of the Rocks (probably part of a marginal fluvio-glacial drainage system used when ice was pressed up against the cliffline).
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