THE BOOK
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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Newport lecture, May 22nd
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NEXT YEAR do a lecture on myths and science at the annual Megalithomania Conference, Glastonbury. This May scientist Terence Meaden is doing a very interesting talk based on his book about the Greek explorer Pytheas.
Since when did Terence Meaden become a scientist, Tony?
Terence was when younger an eminent physicist and meteorologist. Look online, Tom.
Thanks for that, Tony. I remember Terence Meaden now. He is the guy who proposed the idea of a phallic shadow cast from Stonehenge's Heel Stone. My concern is that too many people these days flaunt their qualifications and call themselves scientists to impose their personal hypotheses upon us.
It so happens Terence ( who lives in nearby Bradford-on-Avon) is 90 today.
Tom, I remember Terence long before he became well known in relation to prehistoric archaeology. When the phenomenon of corn circles, particularly in Wiltshire, started to be reported in the early 1980s, he proposed as a physicist and meteorologist that they were created naturally when certain meteorological conditions occurred in the lower atmosphere (he has worked on tornado research).
As regards Stonehenge, Terence is now saying that Stone 67 (now lying partly buried in the ground) was deliberately shaped to resemble a penis. At its far end is its bulbous tip (its probable glans). According to him, below its bulbous end, the shaft of the phallus appears to have been deliberately ' slimmed down to make it less bulbous than the glans. The stone to the right is the fallen lintel from the Great Trilithon. [on this Blog we have during 2025 discussed the Altar Stone and Great Trilithon a good deal].
Brian, now shared your Newport Talk on Facebook to the sites of Mike Pitts, Francis Pryor and well known Stonehenge environmental archaeologist Dr Mike Allen so they may each arrive by parachute or coracle just in time, hope they all give generously to your chosen charity, The Would - Be Indiana Jones Trust.
a.k.a. CROP CIRCLES
Terence Meaden's archaeological research has been influenced by that of Lithuanian archaeologist Marija Gimbutas involving Goddess worshipping Neolithic and Bronze Age cultures of 'Old Europe'.
Tony. Sorry, but I don't believe a word of it.
Well, I am prepared to consider it all when I have time to properly do so. I have no objection to thinking about anthropological points of view, having studied anthropology (briefly it's true) at university whilst geography was my main Honours subject.Lithuania has produced benefits in other ways too, as Brian and his wife know I believe?
Correction: Brian's link is I think with Latvia, not with Lithuania.
No -- it was Lithuania. My wife has a nice new right knee installed in Kaunas.
Just spotted this in the Trowbridge Wiltshire Library: William Potter " Unexplained Mysteries of the Ancient World", 2025. On Stonehenge it at least says "One theory has it that the Altar Stone and the Bluestones began their journeys towards Stonehenge far earlier, carried along by glaciers some 400,000 years ago"
The self - professed fan of Indiana Jones, Professor Parker Pearson, needs to watch " Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" Prophetic for your antics on Preseli??
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