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Sunday 21 August 2022

How to move a bluestone (2)

 


Historic photo -- a 2.5 tonne bluestone being moved from the Carn Meini area in April 1989, as part of a project in support of the Cystic Fibrosis Society.  Two stones were moved off the mountain by the Chinook helicopter -- I think this is the one that went on to be transported to Stonehenge on the back of a lorry.  It was at the entrance to the old Visitor Centre, next to a lump of sarsen.  Where is it now? 

I think the other stone (3.5 tonnes) was set up near the Waldo Williams memorial, on the other side of the road, on the common near Mynachlogddu.

The stones were "donated" by the Barony of Cemaes, which presumed to have owned them!

2 comments:

PeteG said...

it's at the new Stonehenge visitors site. I used a close up of it and the sarsen next to it to see who could identify which was the bluestone. Remember this?
You were the only one to get it right!
PetG

BRIAN JOHN said...

Yes indeed, Pete. Remember it well. I have also done experiments with bits of rock, with a similar conclusion: sarsen is bluer than bluestone. So I wonder how many bluestones there are littering the landscape around Stonehenge, but always assumed to be sarsens?