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