tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post5717409329769224292..comments2024-03-28T22:13:17.139+00:00Comments on Stonehenge and the Ice Age: The lost megalithic structures of SomersetBRIAN JOHNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00413447032454568083noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-46043975095397811182016-09-04T21:40:50.640+01:002016-09-04T21:40:50.640+01:00More on Samuel Hieronymous Grimm [much of it glowi...More on Samuel Hieronymous Grimm [much of it glowing praise] at:-<br /><br />www.buildinghistory.org/primary/grimm.shtmlTonyHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-77330008025474982992016-09-04T21:34:03.740+01:002016-09-04T21:34:03.740+01:00HISTORIC ENGLAND: CLEVEDON COURT. There is an inte...HISTORIC ENGLAND: CLEVEDON COURT. There is an interesting account at:-<br /><br /><br />https//historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/10000565<br /><br />TonyHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-38535894983660114452016-09-04T17:49:47.615+01:002016-09-04T17:49:47.615+01:00A lot of sites are known in the area -- many of th...A lot of sites are known in the area -- many of them showing traces of glaciation. There's a big reference list -- but much of the work is summarised in the GCR volume for SW England -- published 1998.<br /><br />Key sites are Weston-in-Gordano, Nightingale valley, Holly Lane, Court Hill, Ham Green, Kenn Church, Kenn Pier, and Yew Tree Farm. All the "unequivocal" evidence shows an ice incursion from the Bristol Channel, at least as far inland as Bath and the inner reaches of the Somerset Levels. The authors of the GCR articles refer to the glaciation as "extremely ancient" -- and some think it was pre-Anglian. The jury is still out on the matter of age.......BRIAN JOHNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00413447032454568083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-85733822333577602972016-09-04T15:58:02.955+01:002016-09-04T15:58:02.955+01:00You would wonder whether the University of Bristol...You would wonder whether the University of Bristol's eminent Geography Department has done any geomorphological fieldwork on the ridge between Clevedon, Weston - in Gordano and towards Portishead? Anyone know?TonyHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-9105302684739403372016-09-04T15:36:18.349+01:002016-09-04T15:36:18.349+01:00Some locals may care to enquire at their local, No...Some locals may care to enquire at their local, North Somerset libraries, to seek and thereby (optimistically speaking) find other local history etc mentions of these stones.<br /><br />I don't think the well - respected field archaeologist, Leslie Grinsell, mentions anything in his "Archaeology of Wessex", which is in any case nearly 60 years old. Leslie was a great character and Curator of Bristol Museum and a person who scoured the terrains of various parts of SW England for signs of prehistory in an impressively thorough, systematic manner. I accompanied him as he reseaerched one of his guidebooks in North Devon. He also showed me the very faint residual remains of a barrow on the edge of a hockey pitch on Lansdown, Bath! Many of the barrows around Avebury still have "Grinsell numbers".TonyHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-10733302628759806602016-09-04T08:19:40.107+01:002016-09-04T08:19:40.107+01:00As I mentioned, we have to consider the possibilit...As I mentioned, we have to consider the possibility that these features are follies or else stone clearance features. None of the stones in the sketches seems to be bedded into the ground -- and that might be a highly significant point. From our point of view, the fact that the stones were there and needed clearing is the interesting one -- are we really talking about the clearing up of a litter of erratics? There are other glacial deposits in this general area, as shown in the GCR book and many other papers.BRIAN JOHNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00413447032454568083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-61683072210657921422016-09-04T01:27:32.144+01:002016-09-04T01:27:32.144+01:00yes and they know nothing about them. I asked abou...yes and they know nothing about them. I asked about the stone row in Weston woods and they said "probably old quarry stones" but they are covered in deep moss and were there long before the quaries.PeteGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06602290459387947074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-22980511828894761982016-09-03T19:03:29.332+01:002016-09-03T19:03:29.332+01:00I wonder if Pete has enquired from Somerset Archae...I wonder if Pete has enquired from Somerset Archaeological Service, presumably still at Taunton, what they know about these stone settings etc?TonyHnoreply@blogger.com