tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post3353606405188206728..comments2024-03-28T22:13:17.139+00:00Comments on Stonehenge and the Ice Age: Pensarn -- what will the diggers find?BRIAN JOHNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00413447032454568083noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-35283173038513301222016-09-01T21:54:23.945+01:002016-09-01T21:54:23.945+01:00"The Chambered Cairn" is a new film abou..."The Chambered Cairn" is a new film about PARC LE BREOS, West Glamorgan, Chambered Cairn. It is premiering at Gower Heritage Centre on Saturday September 17th. The cairn is said to be one of hte finest in South Wales and has been much restored.<br /><br />Megalithic Portal News Summary, received 1st September, 2016.Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-15975391910576069902016-08-30T23:14:49.984+01:002016-08-30T23:14:49.984+01:00Of course I hope they have a geomorphologist or tw...Of course I hope they have a geomorphologist or two on hand to check things out and to ensure that natural features are not magically assigned to the work of our handy Neolithic ancestors. But I have my doubts........<br /><br />Actually there is rather less chance of fundamental errors creeping in here, since the natural sediment sequence is likely to be less complex. We just hope for accurate recording and sensible interpretations. BRIAN JOHNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00413447032454568083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-17487651990336944862016-08-30T20:37:40.453+01:002016-08-30T20:37:40.453+01:00For any actual Pensarn dig, should one indeed take...For any actual Pensarn dig, should one indeed take place, MPP and his assembled troops really OUGHT to consult an decent experienced Geomorphologist who understands glacial processes as well as periglacial and more recent ones, and preferably one with local knowledge of the Preseli environment...who could that be?....that is, IF they want to avoid mistaking sub - surface boulders for indubitable orthostats.........I suppose, however. if they searched WIDELY enough and dismissed a lot of boulders as natural features, and only focused upon those boulders that formed a circle, they MIGHT eventually come up with some size of circle!<br /><br />A MAN SEES WHAT HE WANTS TO SEE<br />AND DISREGARDS THE REST..<br /><br />PAUL SIMON (Paraphrased) - YET AGAINTonyHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-18731222134608615892016-08-30T18:58:45.871+01:002016-08-30T18:58:45.871+01:00Surprising to myself featured in such an eminent b...Surprising to myself featured in such an eminent blog. I feel pleased that I predicted, about 3/4 years ago that Pensarn is approximately where investigations might be done - in this blog!! So never mind Kate, you read about it here first!<br /><br />Actually it is not such a brilliant insight, just common sense. When there are stones with riverine crystals from the Rhosyfelin low grounds and stones with starry crystals from the high grounds then it makes sense to look for a combination somewhere roughly equidistant and with a good view of the encircling horizons - Pensarn then. I walked up there a few years ago and saw a standing stone in the middle of a field, and a good view, and it seemed to make sense.<br /><br />As to what the mound contains, my guess would be a passage grave a bit like Beddry Afanc might have been or Newgrange even (but smaller) :). Time wise this would put the find some fifteen hundred years earlier than round barrows, and pre-stonehenge first phase. I wish I was in the area this September to see what is discovered ... maybe nothing.chris johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16210890033354730381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-18971883945819347562016-08-30T14:24:29.747+01:002016-08-30T14:24:29.747+01:00My understanding is that in the Neolithic, some of...My understanding is that in the Neolithic, some of the dolmens had round cairns over them -- others were oval or elongated. I suppose a group structure -- like Cerrig y Gof -- probably had a round cairn over the top of it. But from my reading it appears that it was only when these big chambered tombs were replaced by smaller cist graves -- in the Bronze Age -- that round cairns or barrows became commonplace. Who knows? Maybe there is a collapsed and buried Neolithic dolmen / cromlech under that little mound?BRIAN JOHNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00413447032454568083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-16298109379983555942016-08-30T14:12:48.031+01:002016-08-30T14:12:48.031+01:00Round barrows did occur in the Neolithic period. S...Round barrows did occur in the Neolithic period. Source? The Maestro himself, non other than MPP in his 2016 Stonehenge:...... Archaeology For Everyone book.TonyHnoreply@blogger.com