Thanks to Caroline Beaton for sending a photo taken recently in the Stonehenge Visitor Centre. It's good to see that the only decent book on the bluestones is displayed quite prominently, as one would expect. May it continue to sell well, as it has done over the past few years.
Caroline tells me that "there is now a panel in the interpretation centre which mentions that it is not known for sure how the bluestones came to be included at Stonehenge and that there are several theories.
So they are not saying the dragging them there from Wales theory is right!"Caroline says that there is now a better balance in the way that EH is openly discussing the issue and candidly stating there are several theories but no conclusions. Videos also state this quite openly.
This is after all what one might hope for from the custodians of the site, who have a responsibility to offer context and summarise the latest findings and theories.
Contrast this with the recent British Museum exhibition which suggested that the word "dispute" did not exist in the English language........
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I reckon, having myself had the opportunity to speak face - to - face to former Stonehenge Visitor Centre E.H. trained archaeologist Susan Greaney ( at a U3A meeting in Wiltshire), she probably did more than to simply listen courteously to what I had to say about the Preseli bluestones and glaciation. Free from the constraints felt working for English Heritage, she is entitled to make far more balanced and objective statements about those two abiding notions as to how those enigmatic bluestones fetched up on, or rather close to, Salisbury Plain.
Susan Greaney is still restrained, as is the rest of us.
You mean she is still being restrained or restricted by the forces of darkness? She is now an independent academic, and therefore in theory free to think and say what she likes......
Sue Greaney is now a lecturer at the University of Exeter. She told me she is " aware" of Brian's "work". I told her what I knew of our inspection and photographing of the re - found 1924 Stonehenge boulder originally discovered by Newell and now in the Salisbury Museum under the custodianship of Curator Adrian Green.
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