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mountainman
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Re: The bluestone debate
Nov 15, 2008, 10:03
nigelswift wrote:
Some processes simply happen but leave no sign. Where is the evidence, footprints, drag marks or empty holes, for the theory that the sarsens were dragged to Stonehenge from the Marlborough Downs?


Ah, now we come to another sacred cow!! That particular idea was invented by Richard Atkinson -- HH Thomas did not think the sarsens were manhandled from the Marlborough Downs. He thought they were just collected from the Stonehenge area, where they littered the landscape. Prof Summerfield and Goudie shared the HHT view.
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