Friday, 25 October 2024

The Altar Stone Excavations

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An attempt to present the complete record of known excavation around the Altar Stone of Stonehenge. In the 1620s, the Duke of Buckingham led...
Saturday, 19 October 2024

The Chalk Plaque Lozenges

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In 1968 during the widening of the A303 road near Stonehenge. archaeologists uncovered what is now known as the Chalk Plaque Pit, which cont...
Wednesday, 9 October 2024

The characteristics of lines engraved by stone tools versus metal tools

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 The characteristics of lines engraved by stone tools versus metal tools can differ in several key ways:   ## Stone Tool Engravings   ...
Tuesday, 8 October 2024

Was the Altar Stone ever a pillar?

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  The Altar Stone Outline based on Atkinson. Richard Atkinson in the 1979 revision of his "Stonehenge" book addressed the question...
Thursday, 3 October 2024

Are the engravings actually on the Altar Stone?

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Over on X Mike Pitts makes a reasonable observation about the claims in https://www.sarsen.org/2024/10/prehistoric-engravings-discovered-o...
Wednesday, 2 October 2024

Prehistoric Engravings Discovered on Stonehenge's Altar Stone

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In the Historic England archive of Richard Atkinson's 1958 excavations at Stonehenge, I came across two photographs (link to full size c...
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Examining the physical properties of the Altar Stone

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The Historic England Archives in Swindon has a collection of unpublished photographs from Richard Atkinson's 1958 Stonehenge Excavations...