tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post7839884073440630729..comments2024-03-28T14:00:12.372+00:00Comments on Stonehenge and the Ice Age: Rhosyfelin Quarry -- going, going.........gone?BRIAN JOHNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00413447032454568083noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-83646928221372432192015-04-03T19:45:56.569+01:002015-04-03T19:45:56.569+01:00If we erected monuments to mankind's stupidity...If we erected monuments to mankind's stupidity, would there be room enough for us to walk?Alex Geenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-63445538112671575652015-04-02T18:54:18.022+01:002015-04-02T18:54:18.022+01:00Well, the National Park man wrapped it up, so mayb...Well, the National Park man wrapped it up, so maybe it belongs to them. Maybe when the dig is over it will be removed with due ceremony and erected somewhere (with a little plaque on it) as a monument to mankind's stupidity?BRIAN JOHNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00413447032454568083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-56489719887041501882015-04-02T17:24:54.788+01:002015-04-02T17:24:54.788+01:00Alex G
The stone must belong to someone its been...Alex G <br /><br />The stone must belong to someone its been Gift wrapped! <br /><br />Perhaps MPP's been overcome by an overwhelming urge to shove it up your chimney, as a thank you gift this Christmas? <br /><br />Sorry I meant "Down"A Geenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-92162573984028336062015-04-02T08:08:36.942+01:002015-04-02T08:08:36.942+01:00We discussed the big stone yesterday, and agree th...We discussed the big stone yesterday, and agree that its current prominent position, in glorious isolation, is simply an artifice, created by the archaeologists who have simply cleared away everything that previously surrounded it. It was simply part of a large assemblage of rockfall debris -- and there are other large stones even further out from the rock face. It is certainly very big and very heavy -- much larger than the Stonehenge bluestones. What does MPP propose that his fabled quarrymen planned to do with it? Push it downslope into the valley, or upslope and out of the valley? Either way, a vastly complex and difficult enterprise, given the nature of the terrain. BRIAN JOHNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00413447032454568083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-86818956889879460912015-04-01T22:27:16.541+01:002015-04-01T22:27:16.541+01:00So the "smoking gun" of the proto - orth...So the "smoking gun" of the proto - orthostat, of which Mike PP further wrote** "We could hardly believe our luck ....The game was up for anyone still trying to argue that the bluestones were not quarried in Preseli during the Neoloithic, and then taken to Wiltshire" has turned out to be a decidedly damp squib. Oh dear.<br /><br />** Stonehenge, 2012, Chapter 17, page 286TonyHnoreply@blogger.com