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
Friday, 26 August 2016
The Giant's Quoit at Porthleven
Thanks to Rob Ixer for forwarding this one -- photo kindly taken by Nick Moore. It shows how enormous the Gant's Quoit (at Porthleven in Cornwall) really us. As fine a chunk of bluestone as we are likely to see anywhere. (By "bluestone" I mean a chunk of rock in SW England which is obviously an erratic, having got to where it is by some process that we still do not fully understand........)
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