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Edited Feb 19, 2013, 11:37
Re: The Bosham Stone
Feb 19, 2013, 11:15
Sanctuary wrote:
Maybe it wasn't picked up on at the time, but I asked if it would be possible with modern science, to take a sample of the base of the stone to see if it originated from the West Kennet area? Presumably there would still be traces of the soil staining the stone either at its base or anywhere if previously buried.


In the 5th paragraph here Paul Bura says that the people on whose land the stone was ‘found’ lay a stone’s ‘chuck’ from the Avebury stones and that sarsens were to be found in fields around their house in West Kennet. Bura telephoned the people who called him back the next day to tell him that the Bosham Stone had been ‘found’. The timeframe of 24 hours or so suggests that the stone was above ground and that the people who 'found' it either knew of its location or went out to find one that ‘would fit the bill’.

Paul Bura was no doubt misguided in having the stone removed from West Kennet but he probably did it with the best of intentions and according to his beliefs (I’m categorically not defending that by the way as ‘beliefs’ can and do result in the damage, desecration and/or destruction of our heritage - so vividly demonstrated at Bamiyan). If the people who now have the stone do allow it to be examined, and it turns out to be one of the Henge or Avenue megaliths, we might hope they will do the right thing and return it to a place of safety within the Avebury World Heritage Site.

Paul Bura himself by the way died two weeks ago today.
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