Stonehenge and the Ice Age

How much do we know about Stonehenge? Less than we think. And what has Stonehenge got to do with the Ice Age? More than we might think. This blog is mostly devoted to the problems of where the Stonehenge bluestones came from, and how they got from their source areas to the monument. Now and then I will muse on related Stonehenge topics which have an Ice Age dimension...

About Me

BRIAN JOHN: I'm a native of Pembrokeshire. I read Geography at Oxford University prior to working in the Antarctic for a while and then I spent 11 years teaching geomorphology in Durham University. In 1976 I moved back to Wales with my wife and family to a smallholding -- where we set up two small businesses, my wife as a candle-maker and I as a writer and publisher. We lived at the same address for 48 years but have now downsized and live in the town of Newport.. We couldn't live anywhere more beautiful. We have two sons and two grandsons. Apart from my great interest in Stonehenge and the bluestones, and local prehistory and folk traditions, I also write fiction -- and have now written eight volumes in the Angel Mountain Saga -- all tales about a feisty and imperfect heroine called Martha Morgan, who lived on the flanks of Carningli -- the mountain which lies between my home and the north Pembrokeshire coast.

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Stonehenge and the Ice Age

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Kaldalon Sandur, NW Iceland

Deeply symbolic......

Meltwater channels at Rhosyfelin

The Rhosyfelin roadstone quarry?

Where did the Rhosyfelin "proto-orthostat" come from?

Other elongated pillars out on the valley floor at Rhosyfelin

The crack of doom on the Rhosyfelin pseudo-proto-orthostat