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mountainman
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Re: The bluestone debate
Dec 17, 2008, 21:55
nigelswift wrote:
No, asking if a video would do was just a leg pull, a reference to the fact you seem rather partial to the opposite theory.

More to the point, what do you think about the missing Stonehenge sarsen drift?


Fair enough! Actually I could send you a nice video of a glacier in action. Tends to be a bit boring, since the thing only moves at about a km per year ----- but it gets there in the end. That's only two centuries needed to get the bluestones from Preseli to Salisbury Plain!

What do you mean by "sarsen drift"? Do you mean a scatter of sarsen stones? If so, we aren't going to get anywhere because we have no way of knowing how dense this scatter might have been, or what components it might have had. These are after all residuals "let down" onto the chalk surface after many millions of years of erosion. In some areas there might have been big concentrations, and in others none at all. See the articles by Somerfield and Goudie, and assorted other guys including Chris Green.
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