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Re: The bluestone debate
Mar 08, 2017, 07:58
jimthewanderer wrote:
While there has been a passage of some time, the recent findings of Mike Parker Pearson at some of the bluestone Quarries in the preseli's claim to have located almost down to the sockets where certain bluestones where quarried out of the rock face.


A great job has been done in provenancing the source of the bluestones , but some might argue , with some justification , that pinpointing the source is not the same as proving that it was the site where the stones were quarried . The evidence for actual quarrying is not good enough to change the minds of those who believe they bluestones may have been transported by glacial action . Stones have been used in the area for thousands of years but finding the evidence for the quarrying of individual stones is almost impossible . And of course they may not have been quarried or moved by glacial action as there are plenty just lying around ready to be moved . There is one stone at Pont Saeson which MPP claims was physically removed from the source and readied for transport but the quarrying aspect is still very difficult to prove .
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