Wednesday, 24 May 2023

Barium levels, Old Red Sandstone and the Altar Stone

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I was asked about the significance of the mineral, especially barium, levels found in the Altar Stone samples as revealed in the recent Bevi...
Saturday, 20 May 2023

Faking and Mistaking Stonehenge pictures

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Frank Stevens’ guidebook to Stonehenge was first published in 1916 and continued in print until 1938. It is still admired especially for th...
Monday, 15 May 2023

Ding Dong over Stonehenge timekeeping theory

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  Based on plan by  Anthony Johnson , CC BY 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons In 2022 Tim Darvill wrote as an introduction to a paper: " Scho...
Sunday, 14 May 2023

Mike Parker Pearson's Stonehenge: A Brief History

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  Mike Parker Pearson's new book, Stonehenge: A Brief History, is a concise and accessible overview of one of the world's most iconi...
Thursday, 11 May 2023

John Day and the 1802 planned restoration of Stonehenge

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  On January 3, 1797, an entire trilithon, stones 57,58,158, collapsed at Stonehenge. The trilithon was re-erected in 1958. "View of S...
Sunday, 30 April 2023

Two Iconic Sandstone Blocks

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  Photo  https://www.historicenvironment.scot/about-us/news/20-facts-revealed-about-the-stone-of-destiny/ "The lithology of the Stone o...
Friday, 21 April 2023

The Glacial Transport Theory - What Is Behind It?

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There is not a scrap of evidence for any Glacial Transport of Bluestones to Salisbury Plain so what underpins the belief in it? Dr. Brian Jo...