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Littlestone

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The bluestone debate

Jun 14, 2006, 10:57

Following on from sam's Latest News item yesterday about the glacier theory for the bluestones at Stonehenge (please see sam's link at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_west/5072664.stm ) geologists from the Open University are claiming that the bluestones were not transported from the Preseli Hills but were glacial erratics found within the Stonehenge area.

I know the argument against human transport has been made before but I seem to remember a worked bluestone being found a few years ago on the seabed off the Welsh coast (might still have the news cutting somewhere) - that being so doesn't it suggest that the bluestones were transported from Wales?

There's a related article to the above at http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~brianj/bluestones59.html

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The bluestone debate – Littlestone, Jun 14, 2006, 10:57


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