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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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....
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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
Monday, 11 June 2018
More from the ice divide
Purely by chance, this was posted on Facebook today by Stephen John (no relation). Fabulous image -- taken on the remote upland road to the Elan Valley. Again, this is typical ice divide terrain, maybe covered by relatively stagnant and cold-based ice for most of the Devensian cold episode. That means maybe 50,000 years of ice cover, with remarkably little landscape modification.
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A sheep partially collided with my motorbike up there in the Elan Valley near the reservoirs back in the mid 1970's (nearest I ever came to a motorcycle accident, thank goodness). I watched the sheep bound down the other side of the road towards the valley floor. It had appeared suddenly from the grass above the road.
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