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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Friday, 20 May 2016
Murky Preseli
Nice pic of Preseli -- courtesy Phil Morgan. Very moody. At a guess, I reckon it's on the south side of the ridge, between Carn Meini and Foeldrygarn. Correct, Phil?
Stonehenge's landscape was distinctly murky this afternoon too, for our Guided Walk led by Wiltshire Museum's Director David Dawson, but it was nevertheless memorable, taking in Durrington Walls, Woodhenge, The Avenue, 'The Old Ruin' (as Brian insists on calling it so sentimentally). Some of us weren't yet wet enough to refuse to continue to the western end of The Cursus by foot, whilst others wisely took the minibus mode back to the Visitor Centre. It was great to see on the book stands 10 copies of Brian John's Bluestone Enigma, in amongst all the "conventional wisdom" textbooks about Stonehenge. Keep rattling that cage, Brian!
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If it is not there then the only plce with pine plantations is on the southrn sloes of Foel Cwmcerwyn at Cnwc Rhudd.
Stonehenge's landscape was distinctly murky this afternoon too, for our Guided Walk led by Wiltshire Museum's Director David Dawson, but it was nevertheless memorable, taking in Durrington Walls, Woodhenge, The Avenue, 'The Old Ruin' (as Brian insists on calling it so sentimentally). Some of us weren't yet wet enough to refuse to continue to the western end of The Cursus by foot, whilst others wisely took the minibus mode back to the Visitor Centre.
It was great to see on the book stands 10 copies of Brian John's Bluestone Enigma, in amongst all the "conventional wisdom" textbooks about Stonehenge. Keep rattling that cage, Brian!
That looks like the Lethr Mawr plantation to me , from the sometimes very boggy approach from near Glanrhyd up to Carn Menyn southern side. .. ;)
Yes, I think so too. No doubt Phil will enlighten us......
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