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thesweetcheat Dec 12, 2015 13:33:49
Replying to nigelswift

Article from MPP today:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2015/12/11/stonehenge-wasnt-the-first-second-hand-prehistoric-monument/#.Vmwh29KLSt9

Discuss.

S Sanctuary
Sanctuary Dec 12, 2015 14:28:57
Replying to thesweetcheat

thesweetcheat wrote:
Article from MPP today:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2015/12/11/stonehenge-wasnt-the-first-second-hand-prehistoric-monument/#.Vmwh29KLSt9

Discuss.

For what it's worth, the Mont de la Ville dolmen was removed from Jersey and rebuilt in a garden in Henley-on-Thames!

M moss
moss Dec 13, 2015 09:19:01
Replying to thesweetcheat

thesweetcheat wrote:
Article from MPP today:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2015/12/11/stonehenge-wasnt-the-first-second-hand-prehistoric-monument/#.Vmwh29KLSt9

Discuss.

MPP quote; "so we also think it is very likely that the bluestones originally formed a rather different type of monument from a stone circle."

Two things; A Neolithic tomb, passage cairn, was found (buried) near to Carn Meyn in 2011, so presumably this is what MPP is referring to, he wants to find another near to one of his quarry sites ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14733535

The other thing is of course the enigmatic 'horseshoe' monument of stones called 'Bedd Arthur' that lies about a couple of kilometres away from Carn Meyn...

http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/137965/bedd_arthur.html