Among the visitors to my little Bluestone Museum, I am intrigued by the number of people who genuinely believe that all of the bluestones at Stonehenge are tall and elegant pillars. They have all, of course, been led astray by the purveyors of falsehoods -- but here is a little reminder of what 12 of the bluestones look like. There are half a dozen or so genuine pillars, all in the bluestone horseshoe, and a hew slabs of assorted sizes, but the majority of the 43 bluestones are simply very beautiful glacial erratic boulders, heavily abraded and weathered. One day, we will get cosmogenic dating on these stones, and we will prove conclusively to non-geomorphologists what is perfectly obvious -- namely that none of them were quarried by our heroic ancestors.
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