Stonehenge 181
Image by The Eternal

beatles wrote:
what i am ASSUMING is that in the deep soil at stonehenge a concentration of wheat proteins, lipids, and or other residue must be detectable by some means.
That's part of the problem I suspect. The soil isn't deep. I'm not sure exactly how deep, but it's usually described as a thin layer over the chalk. Then there's the fact that the current soil is fairly new, as it was eroded away during the mid 20thC. Have a look at some of the photos from before the fences were erected and you'll see what I mean.

i have been told by jimit here that the underlying chalk is too porous to allow water to stand in the ditch..... if that is so, then the residues would be bound up in the chalk much like they are bound up in ceramic matrix.

what do you think? is chalk porous?

clyde