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Pete G Sep 10, 2006 17:36:03
Replying to Rhiannon

Woodhenge has now revealed 4 pieces of Bluestone (as of saturday) and the Cursus test pits 7.
There is a scattering of bluestones on the Avenue just outside Stonehenge and Stukeley and John Gale reported seeing stone holes on each side of the avenue there.
There are plans to dig at the avenue in the coming years as the Stonehenge Riverside project has another 7 years to run.
There is a write up on the Boles barrow bluestone in WANHS magazine but I can't recall the vol off hand.
Boles barrow is difficult to access as it is on Army land.
There is a chance fpr a nosey around when they allow the ex villagers of Imber onto the plain each year to tend graves in the churchyard.
Terence Meaden's family hail from Imber so I will see if I can get to go along on this years open day and stop off at the Barrow for a look around.
The Boles bluestone looks worked so I will search for fragments to see if it was worked insitu.
PeteG

R Rhiannon
Rhiannon Sep 10, 2006 18:20:48
Replying to Pete G

Ooh that all sounds interesting.
I've found a few references (off the bibliography for 'Appendix II' of the Stonehenge archaeological research framework) here
http://csweb.bournemouth.ac.uk/stonehenge/pdf/appendix2.pdf
though they're probably not what you were thinking of.

Cunnington, B H, 1920, “Blue hard stone, ye same as at Stonehenge”, found in Boles Barrow(Heytesbury I). Wiltshire Archaeological andNatural History Magazine, 41, 172-4

Cunnington, B H, 1924, The Blue Stone from BolesBarrow. Wiltshire Archaeological and NaturalHistory Magazine, 442, 431-47

Thorpe, R S, William-Thorpe, O, Jenkin, D G, and Watson, J S, 1991, The geological sources and transport of the bluestones of Stonehenge, Wiltshire, UK. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 57.2, 103-157

Williams-Thorpe, O, Green, C P and Scource, J D, 1997, The Stonehenge bluestones: discussion. Proceedings of the British Academy, 92, 315-318

there's loads more on that list anyway - might be useful to people generally.

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