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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Sunday, 21 May 2017
Preseli: the eastern tors
I rather like this photo, taken a couple of days ago! Click to enlarge......
Carn Meini (the craggy area at top left) is often described as the most prominent feature of the Preseli skyline, and this is used as an explanation for its desirability as a sacred site and as a quarrying site. Actually the prominence of the skyline features is very dependent upon where you are standing. If you are a Neolithic trader wandering along the "Golden Road" or ridge trackway, on the spine of Mynydd Preseli, Carn Meini is not particularly prominent, and from this viewpoint (on Foel Dyrch) the most prominent of the tors is Carn Gyfrwy -- the one towards top right.
Anyway, whatever the perceived desirability and significance of particular crags might have been, this is a rather wonderful landscape.......
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