The above photos are from present-day ice-contact or dead-ice environments where we have complex mixtures of morainic or till deposits and fluvio-glacial materials where torrential streams are at work. These are reasonable representations of what Rhosyfelin might have looked like at the end of the Devensian glaciation hereabouts -- with the added complication of a broken rocky crag which dumped assorted blocks (and "proto-orthostats" if you like that expression) into the mix.......
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....
To order, click HERE
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
Thursday, 18 September 2014
Rhosyfelin reconstructed
The above photos are from present-day ice-contact or dead-ice environments where we have complex mixtures of morainic or till deposits and fluvio-glacial materials where torrential streams are at work. These are reasonable representations of what Rhosyfelin might have looked like at the end of the Devensian glaciation hereabouts -- with the added complication of a broken rocky crag which dumped assorted blocks (and "proto-orthostats" if you like that expression) into the mix.......
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