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Thursday, 24 May 2018

Quote of the day



Thanks to Tony for this one:  "The human transport theory is looking increasingly far-fetched."  Nice one!  I wish I had thought of it myself........

While the debate has concentrated on the bluestones for many years, I get a sense that it is now moving to a consideration of where the sarsens came from too.  As I suggest in my book, it's reasonable to assume that ALL of the stones used in the stone settings at Stonehenge were collected from the neighbourhood.

I suspect that as more and more senior academics pour scorn on the so-called "quarrying evidence" from Rhosyfelin and Carn Goedog, as they surely will, the archaeologists will be pushed further and further into a corner, from which there may be no escape.

1 comment:

  1. "....the archaeologists will be pushed further and further into a corner, from which there may be no escape".

    Immediately thought of the evocative Shawn Colvin song "Shotgun Down the Avalanche", also performed by Cara Dillon and Sam Lakeman;-

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJG9kKuzvg

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