In the midst of all the fun and games relating to my latest published article, it's worth reminding ourselves that almost all of the points which I make have been made before by assorted geologists and geomorphologists, and -- strange to relate -- by certain respectable archaeologists. One of the key articles, heavily cited, is Geoffrey Kellaway's article in "Nature" journal in 1971, and the other is the big article published by Richard Thorpe et al in 1991 in the Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society. The latter is hugely detailed, and over 50 pages long. Unfortunately, it is still behind a paywall, so it is not as widely read aa it should be. Kellaway's article is also behind a paywall, and that too tends to distort the perceptions of the people who enjoy reading things about Stonehenge........... very few of them will have actually read it.
But here is another immensely valuable article by Olwen Williams-Thorpe and Richard Thorpe -- sadly, Richard died in 1991 before the article was published in 1992. This one is NOT behind a paywall, and I hope it will be widely read by a new generation, perhaps stimulated by my own modest contributions to the debate........
https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/4040/77p133.pdf
I recall you told us you have had contact with a person at the University of Bath who overlooks its Kellaway archive.
ReplyDeleteYes -- Lizzie Richmond whom I thank in the Acknowledgements at the end of the paper... she was very helpful.
ReplyDeleteThere are certain individuals who think they are the bees knees when it comes to Stonehenge and its geologies, naming no names, we know who you are. They need to read without any prejudiced baggage what Olwen Williams - Thorpe and Richard Thorpe say about how the motley assemblage of "bluestones" reached the wider parts of Salisbury Plain AND EVEN to its immediate south - east towards Amesbury in this 1993 article.
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