tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post8001516498448322071..comments2024-03-28T22:13:17.139+00:00Comments on Stonehenge and the Ice Age: Stonehenge -- lessons from AveburyBRIAN JOHNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00413447032454568083noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-65692255783244656402010-04-04T18:14:29.696+01:002010-04-04T18:14:29.696+01:00Thanks Pete. So that sorts that one out. What is...Thanks Pete. So that sorts that one out. What is the geological context at John Gay's Cave? And when you say you have not found a single piece of bluestone, do you mean you have not found a single piece of spotted dolerite? Exotic (ie not sarsen) sandstones, rhyolites and ashes, not to mention "foreign" limestones, are notoriously difficult to spot in the field -- unless you happen upon a nice boulder that you can't very well miss. I know how difficult it is, having looked all over South Pembs for erratics, for years. There are foreign stones around, no doubt about it. The OU team who did the work around 1989 list quite a few of these occurrences....BRIAN JOHNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00413447032454568083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-58680238032786022622010-04-04T12:14:06.337+01:002010-04-04T12:14:06.337+01:00I asked Mike Parker Pearson to check out the stone...I asked Mike Parker Pearson to check out the stones which are in the garden of the Antribus Estate and make up the facade of John Gays cave on the edge of Vespasians camp.<br />They are limestone not bluestone.<br /><br />After four years if intensive searching around Stonehenge I have not found a single piece of Bluestone anywhere yet.<br /><br />The stones in Loxenborough woods are no longer there.<br />PetePeteGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06602290459387947074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-82052236044409710712010-04-04T09:59:27.871+01:002010-04-04T09:59:27.871+01:00Yes, I agree, Ed, that the records refer to a lot ...Yes, I agree, Ed, that the records refer to a lot of Stonehenge robbing and destruction in the past. But if stones have been taken from the "empty segment" of Stonehenge, we need evidence of that, either in the form of sockets or stumps. There are enough gaps and stumps in the excavated part of Stonehenge to confirm the disappearance of quite a few stones.....<br /><br />As for that mysterious cluster of bluestones, no further news. If my friend who gave me that info is reading this, maybe he will give us an up-date?<br /><br />re how the stones might have got into a garden -- yes, I suppose they could be in an original cluster -- ie as deposited by a glacier, or they could be stones gathered up either from Stonehenge or elsewhere as a garden feature. Shades of the Boles Barrow controversy....BRIAN JOHNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00413447032454568083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-77954533417506431372010-04-04T09:46:42.469+01:002010-04-04T09:46:42.469+01:00Hi Brian,
I guess you consider that the two monume...Hi Brian,<br />I guess you consider that the two monuments of Avebury and Stonehenge were left unfinished because there are a large number of stones missing. Do you not consider the possibility that this may be due to the sites being robbed? Antiquarians of the past noted stones being burnt in pits and broken up and in your book, The Bluestone Enigma, pp.109-110, you mention a rumour that there is a cluster of bluestones in a garden somewhere on Salisbury Plain and that delicate negotiations are going on to have the stones examined. (Any news on this yet?)<br />Do you think these bluestones may have robbed from Stonehenge or deposited as an ornamental garden feature by glaciation?<br />Regards, Ed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com