tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post5428267669627718329..comments2024-03-28T22:13:17.139+00:00Comments on Stonehenge and the Ice Age: The dismantled stone circle?BRIAN JOHNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00413447032454568083noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-82219508383109193412011-09-13T21:20:17.426+01:002011-09-13T21:20:17.426+01:00How do you know a certain route is prehistoric and...How do you know a certain route is prehistoric and if so can i get a copy of that map?<br /><br />In reality the only routes we know are roman or iron age some 3000 years later!!<br /> <br />If we didn't have a need markers on routes why did we use mile stones ?<br /><br />The lack of historical knowlegde and the inablity to picture the forest that covered our environment is astonishing!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-39293289093311975222011-09-13T21:15:07.596+01:002011-09-13T21:15:07.596+01:00Hmmm ... I find the Bluestonehenge stuff very unco...Hmmm ... I find the Bluestonehenge stuff very unconvincing, as I have explained on this blog. Far too many assumptions and blind leaps of faith, based on far too little evidence. I still remain to be convinced that there were any bluestones there at all....BRIAN JOHNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00413447032454568083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-48978177291962096502011-09-13T20:35:51.227+01:002011-09-13T20:35:51.227+01:00To be fair, MPP and his Stonehenge Riverside Team ...To be fair, MPP and his Stonehenge Riverside Team have recent experience of identifying a dismantled stone circle, namely the so-called "Bluestonehenge" at the bottom of Stonehenge Avenue close to the River Avon.So they will again be looking for evidence of stone sockets.Incidentally, at the end of the previous Season of digging, they had no notion that they might find such a dismantled circle.Tony Hinchliffenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-58456793060689385352011-09-13T12:03:16.735+01:002011-09-13T12:03:16.735+01:00RJL , two of the major tracks in prehistoric sout...RJL , two of the major tracks in prehistoric southern England are the Ridgeway and Icknield way can you think of any standing stones on their route ? Or any prehistoric route over a stretch of miles where standing stones mark the way.<br /> Their are swathes of the country where you will not a find a standing stone does this mean that these areas were trackless ?<br /> In some cases standing stones are clearly markers , they are relatively common on the 18th C Wade roads of Scotland and the some does apply to some from earlier periods but when there are a pair or a group that clearly have no relationship to tracks e.g. Dunruchan it is apparent that there is more to the problem than something as simple as markers .<br />Tracks are maintained by their use ,whether animal or human or both , and utility and even in areas where stone is available their is no need to to point to the fact that your are on the track .Geo Curhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03616965043116389325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-55575553202259915772011-09-13T11:16:26.795+01:002011-09-13T11:16:26.795+01:00Robert -- I have to give you credit for your utter...Robert -- I have to give you credit for your utter conviction and certainty about everything!! Maybe it's the hat that does it.<br /><br />You are of course quite wrong. All of these stones are on low ground relative to their environment (whatever that means).BRIAN JOHNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00413447032454568083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-51018612277314633892011-09-13T10:00:49.915+01:002011-09-13T10:00:49.915+01:00Barrows and Standing Stone are Neolithic place mar...Barrows and Standing Stone are Neolithic place markers that show tracks to settlements or places of interests like water springs, quarries or temples.<br /><br />Stone Circles are intersection points were multiple paths meet and the stones align with these ancient pathways.<br /><br />To find out if this is a Standing Stone or the remains of a Stone Circle you will need to plot out all the pathways to see if a single path (standing stone/barrow path) or multiple paths (5 or more) go through this site.<br /><br />Not exactly rocket science, if you remember that what you see today, is not how it looked in the Neolithic period - hence paths without markers as suggested by Geo Cur in previous comments, would not exist as they would become overgrown in a short period of time.<br /><br />Hence the placing of these markers on 'high ground' RELATIVE to there environment.<br /><br />RJLBobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16886732338349957214noreply@blogger.com