Above is the poster for the book -- currently being distributed, and on schedule for publication day, 1st June 2018......
Contents as listed below:
Contents
1. The Enigma of the Foreign Stones 7
Sarsens and bluestones 9
The Pembrokeshire connection 12
The Preseli tors 15
Notes 19
2. Stonehenge and the Bluestones 21
The holes and the stones 21
Earthworks and pits 22
The stone settings 26
Reconstructions 31
Many pits, but how many stones? 37
The origins of the sarsens 41
The origins of the bluestones 44
The Stonehenge Layer 46
3. The Bluestone Transport Myth 49
Once upon a time..... 50
Testing the myth 60
The Millennium Stone fiasco 66
4. The Fable of Merlin the Wizard 75
Concerning the prophecies of Merlin 75
The back story 80
Politics and marketing 82
Proto-Stonehenge 84
5. Spreading the Myth 87
Variations on a theme 87
Dating the bluestone expeditions 92
Other dating methods 97
The starry sky 98
The Boscombe Bowmen 100
Barbecued beefburgers 101
The Neolithic argonauts 103
The Enchanted Land 108
The healing springs 112
The 2008 Stonehenge dig 116
Neolithic diplomacy 118
The stones of the ancestors 119
Orthodoxies and Dissidents 121
6. The Bluestone Quarrying Myth 125
The Carn Meini “quarry” 125
The Rhosyfelin “quarry” 131
The Carn Goedog “quarry” 143
The making of the myth 150
7. The Science of the Stones 157
The geological evidence 157
Modern research 161
Packing stones and mauls 169
Axe-heads and battle axes 170
The Altar Stone 172
Those other sandstones 175
The Berwick St James mystery 176
The volcanic ashes 177
Other inconvenient stones 178
The clay-with-flints puzzle 181
The “periglacial stripes” 182
The bluestone assemblage 183
8. The Work of Ice 185
The wider context 185
Glacial features of eastern Preseli 187
Glacial traces in the South-West 195
Reconstructing the glacier 204
Glacier modelling 206
Ice movement and entrainment 208
Erratic transport 211
The bluestone erratics train 214
Erratics, magic and mythology 217
A Matter of Convenience 220
9. The Balance of Probabilities 221
On human quarrying and transport 221
On glacial entrainment and transport 230
Keeping it simple 238
10. Conclusions
References
1. The Enigma of the Foreign Stones 7
Sarsens and bluestones 9
The Pembrokeshire connection 12
The Preseli tors 15
Notes 19
2. Stonehenge and the Bluestones 21
The holes and the stones 21
Earthworks and pits 22
The stone settings 26
Reconstructions 31
Many pits, but how many stones? 37
The origins of the sarsens 41
The origins of the bluestones 44
The Stonehenge Layer 46
3. The Bluestone Transport Myth 49
Once upon a time..... 50
Testing the myth 60
The Millennium Stone fiasco 66
4. The Fable of Merlin the Wizard 75
Concerning the prophecies of Merlin 75
The back story 80
Politics and marketing 82
Proto-Stonehenge 84
5. Spreading the Myth 87
Variations on a theme 87
Dating the bluestone expeditions 92
Other dating methods 97
The starry sky 98
The Boscombe Bowmen 100
Barbecued beefburgers 101
The Neolithic argonauts 103
The Enchanted Land 108
The healing springs 112
The 2008 Stonehenge dig 116
Neolithic diplomacy 118
The stones of the ancestors 119
Orthodoxies and Dissidents 121
6. The Bluestone Quarrying Myth 125
The Carn Meini “quarry” 125
The Rhosyfelin “quarry” 131
The Carn Goedog “quarry” 143
The making of the myth 150
7. The Science of the Stones 157
The geological evidence 157
Modern research 161
Packing stones and mauls 169
Axe-heads and battle axes 170
The Altar Stone 172
Those other sandstones 175
The Berwick St James mystery 176
The volcanic ashes 177
Other inconvenient stones 178
The clay-with-flints puzzle 181
The “periglacial stripes” 182
The bluestone assemblage 183
8. The Work of Ice 185
The wider context 185
Glacial features of eastern Preseli 187
Glacial traces in the South-West 195
Reconstructing the glacier 204
Glacier modelling 206
Ice movement and entrainment 208
Erratic transport 211
The bluestone erratics train 214
Erratics, magic and mythology 217
A Matter of Convenience 220
9. The Balance of Probabilities 221
On human quarrying and transport 221
On glacial entrainment and transport 230
Keeping it simple 238
10. Conclusions
References
2 comments:
Wondering out of interest, how many copies you initially printed? Anyway, this should certainly do the trick in putting the cat amongst the pigeons so to speak; and many of MPP's favourite pigeons will come home to roost, with questioning cooing noises to their owner.
Welsh philosopher Dr. Brian John has proven British archaeologists are clowns.
https://books.google.com/books?id=fvM2tgEACAAJ&dq=%22The+Stonehenge+Bluestones%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwin-6vP5-LbAhXyIzQIHfryCgIQ6AEIKTAA
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