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Those enigmatic bluestones

tjj Aug 26, 2009 18:53:40

Replying to mountainman

mountainman wrote:

Not sure if all those who are currently pasting comments in this debate have read the book -- but there is also a short video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&hl=en-GB&v=FvjyYpF1ui8

This is somewhat amateurish (my first attempt at such things) but it will at least indicate my main lines of thought......

My plans for today were put on hold because the weather took a turn for the wet and windy, so this afternoon I watched about an hour or so of Standing with Stones (which arrived this morning) including the bit about the theory on bloodsports, applied to Stanton Drew ... there was me conjuring up Stone-age gladiators, but of course as the Iron and Bronze age hadn't happened yet so they wouldn't have had swords.

Just watched your little film, which you modestly describe as 'somewhat amateurish' and it seems very plausible indeed. I recognise your name and realise that the subject of erratics has been discussed elsewhere with the emminent Avebury/Stonehenge expert Pete Glastonbury. I know he thinks your theory is sound and on matters of archaeology his is an oppinion I respect.

I hope you don't mind me commenting, I have been following the thread and meant to come back to redress the digression that happened re 'blood sports' somewhere in the middle. For what its worth, I think your theory will soon be widely accepted as a strong probability.

Rupert Soskin Aug 26, 2009 19:42:43

Replying to tjj

tjj wrote:

I have been following the thread and meant to come back to redress the digression that happened re 'blood sports' somewhere in the middle.

sorry, my fault, I was just sympathising with the establishment attitude

mountainman Aug 31, 2009 21:25:07

Replying to tjj

Thanks tjj -- I meant my video-making skills were a bit limited. I hope the content is OK! I'm quite intrigued to hear rumours of the recent stone identifications coming out of the digs on the Cursus and West Amesbury. It appears that there are many stones -- especially rhyolites -- whose provenance is totally unknown. They appear to have nothing to do with Pembrokeshire or West Wales. This makes the "glacial erratic theory" look even more attractive, and hopefully this will be confirmed when several new papers are published.

I have also picked up on info that a couple of reviews that the book might have got in mainstream archaeological journals were stopped when the reviewers said they has "major archaeological misgivings" about the book. Bloody cheek! If reviewers have "major archaeological misgivings" about the book I want to know what they are, so that I can address them. I am fed up to the teeth with senior archaeologists who say "He is not one of us -- we know things he does not know, so we'll just ignore him......" and then fail to specify which pieces of my thesis they are unhappy with. Excuse me while I splutter obscenities into my coffee.......