Pete G
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Re: The bluestone debate
Jun 17, 2006, 16:03
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Bluestones are something I have been keeping an eye out for.
So far I have not found a single peice in any of the longbarrows of the severn cotwold series.
There is supposed to be a stone somewhere in the Avon.
Finding that would be a good start to show they were moved by people.
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Pete G
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Re: The bluestone debate
Jun 17, 2006, 16:04
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I've never know you to invoke the 'High Monarch of Beautiful Light'
(Tall King Beau Lux)
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StoneLifter
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Re: The bluestone debate
Jun 17, 2006, 16:49
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It would make a good drama as well. Are there any records of the Avon stone ?
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nigelswift
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The full pro-glacier case
Jun 17, 2006, 17:07
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http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~brianj/bluestones59.html
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Pete G
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Re: The bluestone debate
Jun 17, 2006, 17:13
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yes, there are several mentions in WAM but I can't recall the vols or page #'s while the footie is on.
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Pete G
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and a response
Jun 17, 2006, 17:14
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http://www.eternalidol.com/
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StoneLifter
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Known examples
Jun 17, 2006, 18:02
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Long Meg was transported to the site from a quarry, or source, five or six miles northnortheast. A similar O.R.S. boulder was probably taken to Halliwell, Bolton, from Frodsham thirty or forty miles away (the latter is pure speculation as only bits of the stone - still revered however - survive). Any more known ?
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nigelswift
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Re: Known examples
Jun 17, 2006, 19:02
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Devil's arrows? The infill walling of WKLB?
Seems to me there's a rational case for glaciation but it's proponents should have left it at that, as one possibility. Why over-egg it and say that human transportation couldn't have happened? Emphasizing the Millenium Project is a bit selective - it wasn't done right and they didn't have enough people, but there's have been loads of stonemoving replications all over the world that suggest it's not a big deal - it's even a sport in Spain.
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Pete G
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Re: Known examples
Jun 17, 2006, 19:13
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There is a single stone north of Avebury that is still there.
It is from the cotswolds and was once part of the Shelving stones.
Stanton Drew stones were dragged more than a few miles.
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StoneLifter
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Re: Known examples
Jun 17, 2006, 19:42
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We'll just have to find that Avon stone then. Perhaps it is within reach of a very low tide sometime ?
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