Dorset Stones Query

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Squid Tempest S
Squid Tempest Sep 14, 2006 12:55:03
Replying to Spaceship mark

Many thanks Mark, Interesting stuff. So they would have been local stones then. I wonder why the so-called geologist knew nothing about them then?!

S Spaceship mark
Spaceship mark Sep 14, 2006 13:38:44
Replying to Squid Tempest

Geologists? I shit 'em...

To be fair not a lot of people know about silcretes (or their cousins calcretes). They tend to be fairly localised and are quite rare globally. I only know that cos I did my uni disertation on 'The Sarsen Stones of the Marlborough Downs' (mainly as an excuse to hang around Avebury for two weeks, but also cos I knew my lecturers knew nought of the subject!)