Tuesday, 31 December 2024

Ritual Stones in Scottish Universities

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The tradition of "black stone examination" in Scottish universities is a fascinating aspect of academic history, with roots dating...
Monday, 30 December 2024

Darwin's Stonehenge Notes

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 I have written before about Darwin's Stone at Stonehenge -  https://www.sarsen.org/2014/05/darwin-stonehenge-and-worms.html    where he...

The Location of the Altar Stone Engravings

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The location of the enigmatic engravings on the Altar Stone shown in Richard Atkinson's 1958 photos that I found in the Historic Englan...
Sunday, 29 December 2024

Newall's Boulder - A short note on a defective paper

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I note the publishers of the deeply flawed paper -  A bluestone boulder at Stonehenge: implications for the glacial transport theory   - hav...
Thursday, 26 December 2024

The Battle of the Bluestones – Mythology versus Science

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   Click to enlarge It is worth recording the theory of how the bluestones were brought to Stonehenge by ice before it goes the way of so ma...
Monday, 23 December 2024

Where did the missing stones go?

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Sarsen Quern Fragment Mike Pitts asks: "What happened to these missing stones? Who took them down and where did they go? As I wrote som...
Friday, 20 December 2024

Stonehenge's Origins: A Unifying Monument for Ancient Britons - PR

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Recent archaeological research, building on two prior studies, points to a fascinating possibility about Stonehenge: it may have been recons...
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