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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Wednesday, 24 August 2016
Gelli-fawr menhir
This is a splendid standing stone -- one of the biggest in the area. It's in a field not far from the Gelli-fawr hotel, looking down into the Gwaun Valley. It's dolerite, clearly collected from a huge litter of dolerite boulders in this area, and less than 20m away there is another massive lump of dolerite, this time recumbent and with just a part of it sticking through the turf. I reckon the weight of this one must be about 6 tonnes......
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