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mountainman
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Re: The bluestone debate
Nov 14, 2008, 23:00
I suppose any theory that gets widely accepted is likely to become a sacred cow....... if we are not careful.

Even if Profs D and W find slabs or pillars of bluestone in the eastern Preseli Hills area and trace them to Carn Meini or one of the other outcrops, and them match them with one or more of the monoliths at Stonehenge, that will tell us nothing about the human transport theory. The outcrops of spotted dolerite have been quarried for centuries by local people wanting gateposts, lintels, doorsteps etc. There are spotted dolerite gateposts all over N Pembs! Some were carried from the mountains, others were picked up as erratics. Bethel Chapel (Mynachlogddu) used Carn Meini stone when it was rebuilt in the 1800's, and Cana Chapel (Felindre Farchog_) used stone from Carn Goedog when it was rebuilt........
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