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Stonehenge

The Blue Stone Enigma

megadread M
megadread Jun 29, 2009 12:37:55
Replying to tonyh

tonyh wrote:
Pete G wrote:
Maybe not Tony,
I've pointed MPP in the direction of a big pile of rocks less than a mile from Stonehenge in someone's garden.
PeteG
Makes You wonder how many of the 'missing stones' are just sitting around in Gardens and the like, just waiting to be found..

Can't remember the name of the Barrow, but I know they found a 'Bluestone' in one on Salisbury Plain that was built 1000 years before Stonehenge. You have to wonder how it got there...

If by Human endeavor, then maybe all of the 'Bluestones' arrived on the Plain a 1000 years before they started the build...

Of maybe it was just another Erratic...

Tony

That would be Boles barrow Tony.
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/1980/boles_barrow.html

T tonyh
tonyh Jun 29, 2009 12:52:38
Replying to megadread

Cheers Mate..

So William Cunnington found the Stone and as a Geologist recognised it as a 'Bluestone' like those to be found at Stonehenge..

He took this stone and others from the Barrow and formed them in a circle in His Garden..

After He died the 'Bluestone' was given to Salisbury Museum.

But some say that the Salisbury Stone is from Stonehenge.

Now, I wonder why?

Tony

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